Prejudice poem quotes
No Problem
Half-Caste
Class Game
"How can you tell what class I'm from?"
"And I'm proud of the class that I come from"
"Well, mate! A cleaner is me mother. A docker is me brother. Bread pudding is wet nelly. And me stomach is me belly"
"Why do you care what class I'm from?"
"Don't I crook me little finger when I drink me tea?"
"Have I a label on me head, and another on me bum?"
"And commute into Liverpool by train each day?"
"Cos we live in a corpy, not like some"
"In a pretty little semi, out Wirral way."
"With an 'Olly in me mouth"
"Me say 'Tara' to me 'Ma' instead of 'By Mummy Dear'"
"I am not de problem"
"Of silly playground taunts"
"An racist stunts"
"I am a born academic, but dey got me on de run"
"Now I am branded athletic"
"I can teach yu of Timbuktu"
"I can do more dan dance"
"I greet yu wid a smile"
"Yu put me in a pigeon hole. But I am versatile"
"These conditions may affect me"
"I am positively sure I have no chips on me shoulders"
"Black is not de problem. Mother country get it right"
"Sum of me best friends are white"
"Excuse me"
"Standing on one leg. I am half-caste"
"Explain yuself"
"Yu mean when Picasso mix red an green"
"When light an shadow mix in de sky is a half-cast weather"
"England weather nearly always half-caste"
"So spiteful"
"An mix a black key wid a white key is a half-caste symphony"
"Ah listening to yu wid de keen half of mih ear"
"Ah looking at yu wid de keen half of mih eye"
"When I'm introduced to yu, I'm sure you'll understand, why I offer yu half-a-hand"
"An when moon begin to glow, I half-caste human being, cast half-a-shadow"
"Wid de whole of yu eye an de whole of yu ear and de whole of yu mind"
"An I will tell yu, de other half of my story"