ABSTRACT
I figured out that I was a milestone in people's sexual experience — to have made it with a black woman was one of those things to check off on your list of personal accomplishments. That already has a slightly masochistic effect: to have just been the body for someone's life story. I guess that's when I decided to offer up my side-long glances to be a slave just a little bit…. So I used a mythic, fictional kind of slave character to justify myself, to reinvent myself in some other situations.
