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Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash/Just who do you think I am?/You raise my taxes, freeze my wages/And send my son to Vietnam/You give me second class houses/And second class schools/Do you think that all colored folks/Are just second class fools?

— Nina Simone

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We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is equality/For my sister, my brother, my people, and me

When the poets rhyme in the summertime/You'll hear melodies in the words

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

I Put a Spell on You (1991)

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

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