1.   All the black boys knew it.

2.   Along with rap artists and basketball players, these are the black men the black boys look up to.

3.   Each stays on his own side of the day room the way the black boys want it.

4.   I hear a black boy whisper to the other.

5.   In one corner was a strange life-size wooden cut-out of a black boy holding a tray.

6.   Ten minutes to one the fog dissolves completely and the black boys are telling Acutes to clear the floor for the meeting.

7.   The black boy was down there telling Petey all his old secrets.

8.   The black boys move in with the flashlights.

9.   The least black boy swung his head from side to side, turned, and ran for the door.

10.   The wooden black boy in the corner was identifiable by his white gloves in the gloom.