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Could the pigment of your imagination
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Black faces in high placesâ
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
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âHistory repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.â âKarl Marx
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
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âAinât no power like the power of the peopleâ
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