Monologues for Actors of Color: Men Book

	Preface
	Before It Hits Home	1
	Blade to the Heat	3
	Born in the R.S.A.	5
	A Bowl of Beings	9
	A Branch of the Blue Nile	13
	The Chickencoop Chinaman	15
	Cleveland Raining	17
	Cloud Tectonics	19
	The Colored Museum	25
	Coyote City	29
	The Crossroads	31
	Cuba and His Teddy Bear	33
	Day of Absence	35
	Death and the Maiden	39
	Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing	43
	Dutchman	47
	Education is Our Right	51
	El Grito de Ias Minas	53
	Fierce Love: Stories from Black Gay Life	55
	Fires in the Mirror	59
	The First Breeze of Summer	63
	Fish Head Soup	67
	for black boys who have considered homicide when the streets were too much	69
	49	73
	The Gate of Heaven	77
	I Am a Man	81
	I Hate	83
	A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death	85
	Joe Turner's Come and Gone	87
	A Language of Their Own	89
	Latins Anonymous	93
	The Lion and the Jewel	95
	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	101
	The Meeting	105
	Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown	109
	The Mighty Gents	113
	Miriam's Flowers	117
	The Mojo and the Sayso	119
	Night of the Assassins	123
	Paper Angels	127
	Roosters	129
	The Talented Tenth	131
	Talking in Tongues	135
	Talk Story	137
	Toronto at Dreamer's Rock	139
	Weebjob	143
	X	147
	Yankee Dawg You Die	151
	Zooman and the Sign	153
	Acknowledgments	156
	Permissions and Play Sources	157