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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.

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Attitude Money Need Yourself
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Force Goodness People Yourself
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Country Friendship Mindset Myself Pay
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Force God Live Willing Yourself
Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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Darkness Oppression Ourselves Skin Togetherness Yourself
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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Myself Result Wait
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Acceptance Difficult People Truth
If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Democracy Goodness
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Music Myself Poet
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Home Myself People
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Animal Human Life Tolerance
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Limitation Yourself
I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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Believe Breathe Human Light Live Morning Myself Sun
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Deep Education Home Learning Myself Shame
I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.

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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.

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