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Hound dogs on my trail/School children sitting in jail/Black cat cross my path/I think every day's gonna be my last/Don't tell me, I'll tell you/Me and my people just about due/I've been there so I know/They keep on saying "Go slow!"

— 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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