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Black girl black girl lips as curved as cherries full as grape bunches sweet as blackberries

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This morning, there flew up the lane A timid lady-bird to our bird-bath And eyed her image dolefully as death;

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And weeping fast as she had breath Janet implored us, 'Wake her from her sleep!'...

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There was such speed in her little body, And such lightness in her footfall, It is no wonder her brown study Astonishes us all.

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It was a transmogrifying bee Came droning down on Chucky's old bald head And sat and put the poison. It scarcely bled,

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Sweet ladies, long may ye bloom, and toughly I hope ye may thole, But was she not lucky? In flowers and lace and mourning,...

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But this was the old tree's late branch wrenched away, Grieving the sapless limbs, the shorn and shaken.

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Now the poor comb stood up straight But Chucky did not.

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The curse of hell upon the sleek upstart That got the Captain finally on his back...

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When you write there is the sound that each word makes as it falls against another word, and there is also the sound of silence in between the words.

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All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

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The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

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I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americ...

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The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

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The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the d...

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At this time in American history, we are like ghosts talking gibberish through different dimensions, and stupid men do not make good make good...

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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

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Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

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I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's because many America...

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