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That is what they call the bottom line can't say to each other
to hell with you, this piece of the world is mine |
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| With in the veil By Michelle Cliff |
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gold chains are love-symbols
you tell me where they are found |
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| With in the veil By Michelle Cliff |
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Let one speak his peace
and watch the guns replace the toys |
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| With in the veil By Michelle Cliff |
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| She ain't finished yet and the standing there whistling while I went out the back gate |
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| The two by Gloria Taylor (from the women of Brewster place) |
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| A tall yellow woman in bloody green and black dress, scraped at the air crying please please |
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| The two by Gloria Taylor (from the women of Brewster place) |
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| Today Brewster- Tomorrow America |
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| The two by Gloria Taylor (from the women of Brewster place) |
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| Who are they? and where in the hell are we? living in some dump of building in this god forsaken part of town around a bunch of ignorant niggers with cotton still under their fingernails because of you and your they. |
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| The two by Gloria Taylor (from the women of Brewster place) |
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Out of the swamp the cane appears
to haunt us and we cut it down |
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| EL general has found his word perejil |
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| He wondered if any of those young black women would stand up for him Would they understand how far he'd come to get there |
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| Equal Opportunity by Walter Mosley |
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| I had to come. I couldn't let people say that I can't even apply. If I did that then I night as well die |
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| Equal Opportunity by Walter Mosley |
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| There was definite religious feel to being in the great store. The lofty ceilings the abundance , the wealth |
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| Equal Opportunity by Walter Mosley |
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| said we were lucky to live in a house as big as ours with a living room to receive our guest plus a room for the two of us to sleep |
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| Breath Eyes Memory By Edwidge Danicat |
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| In spite of where they might live this pot luck was open to everybody who wanted to come. There was no field to plant but workers used thier friendships in the factories or thier grouping int the common yards as reasons to get together eat and celebrate life |
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| Breath Eyes Memory By Edwidge Danicat |
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| I was going to put you to sleep put you in a suitcase and send you to her one day you would wake up there and you would feel your whole life here was a dream |
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| Breath Eyes Memory By Edwidge Danicat |
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| She going to guinea I said or she is going to be a star she is going to be a butterfly or lark in a tree she is going to be free |
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| Breath Eyes Memory By Edwidge Danicat |
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| I pounded it until it began to lean over I push ... It snapped back striking my shoulder I pulled at it yanking it from the ground My palm was bleeding |
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| Breath Eyes Memory By Edwidge Danicat |
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| But we fight the same old men the same old men who thought the earth wax flat go over the edge go on oovere the edge old man |
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| Bocas: A daughter's geography By Ntozake Shange |
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| WE are so hungry for the morning we are feeding our children the sun |
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| Bocas: A daughter's geography By Ntozake Shange |
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| The ones who think helicopters rhyme with hunger who think patrol boats can confiscate a people |
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| Bocas: A daughter's geography By Ntozake Shange |
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| Our twins Salvador and Johannesburg cannot speak the same language |
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| Bocas: A daughter's geography By Ntozake Shange |
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