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So a couple of days
ago I went to see

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a really powerful
and intense movie;

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it was called 12 Years a Slave.

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Watching movies about
that, about slavery,

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always reminds me how lucky
I am to still be alive.

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After all of those
massacres and being--

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just the whole experience.

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Just realizing, you
know, how fortunate it

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is to be here in this moment.

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And how I'm here for a
reason and every reason

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should be taken seriously.

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So this is what
came out of that.

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Out of all the names
left hanging on trees.

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Out of all the names
burned on crosses, torn

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at the mercy of animals' teeth.

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Out of all the names gunned
down in the name of God,

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raped out of existence.

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Lashings and breaking them
into death's skin beautifully.

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Out of all the names you
couldn't take no more.

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Out of all the names, that
is kind, that is smart,

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that is important.

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Out of all the names that
killed themselves kindly.

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Out of all the names put to
silence in false accusations.

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Wrongfully executed.

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Their swallowed innocence
their last supper.

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Out of all the names
gutted out of the belly

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of the brave-like fish.

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Cut at the feet and hands are
the names that dared to run.

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Cut out of the
womb of the hanging

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are the names that
dare to be born again.

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Out of all of the
names entertained

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at picnics, all the people
whose stomachs spoiled

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in the privilege, didn't quite
know what-- didn't quite know

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what to say to stop
all that bleeding,

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but say that they don't
see the difference of me

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and them today.

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Out of all the names
plucked to their deaths

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with that last line.

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See it's at the
mercy of pure luck.

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It's at the mercy of a little
bit of luck and a desire

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to believe in tomorrow.

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The mercy that I was taught
to have on a God that turns

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devil so quietly.

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After the brutal
beating of my own name,

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being strung around the
South in peach pieces.

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Cherishing my rumors
as rich history.

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Generational telephone
games are my legacy.

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They call Fowler Chapman
in a crowded room.

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And carrying on the innocence
of a serial killer's last name

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and a genocide as
my own, I answer.

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I am here.

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Miss Fowler Chapman
has survived.

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[CROWD SNAPPING]

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[APPLAUSE]