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“You better tell your little ofay kid friend move along.”

After Norman Mailer called Baldwin “too charming a writer to be major,” Baldwin replied by offering up what the black jazz musicians Mailer loved said of him: “They thought he was a real sweet ofay cat, but a little frantic.”

The sassy black kid�the slick-speaking bro who scores points off the ofay�goes back to the Good Times of the mid-'70s.

After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white foe-"was the enemy now, the lord of this filthy ghetto."

Says Baldwin of his friend Norman Mailer: "They thought he was a real sweet ofay* cat but a little frantic."