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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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