Louise Meriwether - Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970)

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I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.

Louise Meriwether

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

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It's darn today, damn tomorrow, and next week it'll be goddamn.

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A number runner is something like Santa Claus and any day you hit the number is Christmas.

Louise Meriwether

King James of England wrote the Bible... and he made you niggers happy hewers of wood and told you to serve your masters faithfully and you'd get your reward in heaven. You all believe that shit and been worshipping a white Jesus ever since. How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it? Answer me that?

Louise Meriwether