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This is the first scene of the play, when Lula and Clay first meet. Lula has sought Clay out to sit next to, after spotting him from the platform. She is deliberately sexy, flirtatious, and seductive with Clay and, to begin with he is flattered and excited. However, her taunts about the stereotype of the black man, and the role white people expect him to play, become more aggressive and personal. At this point Clay’s self-assurance leads him to be intrigued, rather than annoyed, and he laughs
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START: Lula: Hello.
Clay: Uh, hi’re you?
Lula: I’m going to sit down...O.K.?
Clay: Sure.
[... ...]
END: Lula: And we’ll pretend that people cannot see you. That is, the citizens. And that you are free of your own history. And I am free of my history. We’ll pretend that we are both anonymous beauties smashing along through the city’s entrails. [She yells as loud as she can] GROOVE!
Amiri Baraka, “Dutchman”, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. E, 6th edition, W.W. Norton & Co., 2003, pp. 2312-3.
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