Originally Posted By: Faithful1


She's been sarcastically compared to John Howard Griffin, a white man who darkened his skin then pretended to be a black man in the South in the 1950s. His book was called "Black Like Me."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me


Originally Posted By: getthesenets
F1,,Saw the film "Black Like Me" years ago....lot of the story and dialogue went over my head.set in specific time and location and i just didn't get some of the references.....especially some of the sexual references.


Good book I read it a about 5 years ago, I definitely recommend it. I don't remember sexual references in the book itself so that may have been added for cinematic reasons, I also could have just forgotten about them if they were in the book


The Dude: And, you know, he's got emotional problems, man.
Walter Sobchak: You mean... beyond pacifism?


Walter Sobchak: This guy f*cking walks. I've never been so sure of anything in my entire life