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It 'bout who we be today,
And in our tabulating way
'Bout saying that we be
Without a-pology.
It's a circle that been run.
That ain't no one ever won.
It that silly rabbit grin,
'Bout running from your skin.


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My mother taught me that you can follow behind everyone and walk in the dust, or you can walk ahead through the unbroken thorny brush. You may get blood on your ankles, but you arrive first and not covered in the residue of others.

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You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Lynn Nottage

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Born: November 2, 1964 (age 60)
Bio: Lynn Nottage is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of women of African descent. She is an associate professor of theater at Columbia University and a lecturer in playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.
Known for:
  1. Mud, river, stone (1999)
  2. Las Meninas (2004)
  3. Sweat (2015)
  4. Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays (2003)

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