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I usually get sad instead
of angry, but every once,

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I get really pissed off.

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And the loss of language,

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or being told-- it's like
Juan Felipe Herrera said,

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being told what language
we have access to

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or how we should shape our
language can be devastating,

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and sometimes it's our teachers
that tell us to do that.

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And sometimes it's the
Buddha, the teacher,

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that we have to kill.

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This is called "Imperialism."

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The lady's British
accent was fake.

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Years later, it
still infuriates.

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Her Cambridge estate had China,
flush toilets, English lessons.

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In exchange for
chores, she taught

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me to speak in full sentences.

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Cured me of my accent.

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A colored girls dream.

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Room and board.

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She taught me to say
what I mean, though

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to this day she refuses
to hear what I mean.

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But she'd been around the world.

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Photographing revolutions,
toasting to Daniel Ortega.

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She knew what was best
for a Spic like me.

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Nightly, I recited Chaucer by
her Greek column and the Peach

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Tree.

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Miss, you tapped the
porcelain teapot.

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Time for your nicotine fix.

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Poof smoke away from
my face but we're

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in the same windowless room.

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All I wanted was the vote.

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The right to remain silent.

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Now you call me ungrateful.

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Me, writing a new Constitution,
full of truth and bad grammar.

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Trouble.

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Trouble educating coloreds.

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Those years I
picked your tobacco

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and you botched my lungs.

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You taught me to spell trigger.

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Now I've got your gun.

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Run, Jane, run.

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Run, run.

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Lady, dear lady,
the empire is done.

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