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Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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If my cup won’t hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn’t ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
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Alcohol Drink Hold Myself
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
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Equality Freedom Myself Right Slave Time
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.
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Darkness Determination Easy Fight Freedom Hard Life Light Sing
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
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Black God Himself Men Right Woman
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
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Dream Freedom Fruit Live Myself Seed
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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Feeling Inspirational Myself Powerful Safety Truth Willing
I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Deal Equality Greatness Man Myself Oppression Pay Woman Work

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

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