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Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky/How sweet it would be/If I found I could fly/I'd soar to the sun/And look down at the sea/And I sing 'cause I know/How it feels to be free

— 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.

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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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