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Thank you guys, this is going
to be my last one tonight.

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All the volunteers that
I talked to earlier,

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can you guys kind of
make your way up here?

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Cool.

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This one was inspired by
Joshua Bennett's "10 Things

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I Want to Say to a
Black Woman," and so I

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thought about all the
women that have brought me

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to where I am today,
and decided to create

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a poem called, "10 Things I
Want to Say to This Woman."

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So it's just in honor of
all the women of my life

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that have made me who I am.

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And, if we can go ahead
and let them set up.

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That's really important,
to be comfortable.

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Before I start, I
just want to thank POG

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for inviting me and
having me tonight.

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[APPLAUSE]

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And everyone else,
also, that was

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a part of this movement
to have this tonight,

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so I really appreciate it.

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"One, it's the way your lips
curl around a declaration that

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makes me want to kiss you.

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Two, I just want
to reach into you.

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It's something about
the thunder in your mind

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before it becomes a sound.

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Three, it's the
softness of your skin,

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the harshness of the
palms of your feet.

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And when you dance,
how it sounds

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like chains breaking
from the skin,

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and necks breaking
straight again,

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heartbeats pounding, to breathe.

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Four, have I ever
told you I love you?

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Because I do, and that can
come as easy as the sun saying

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hello, while the moon saying
goodbye, all in the same sky.

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Five, have I ever told
you that I love you?

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Because I do, and that can
come as complicated as the sun

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saying hello while
the moon saying

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goodbye all in the same sky.

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Six, how you can see
those dreams of yours,

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how your dreams hit the
ground like sudden rain

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on a summer day, how
they hit and surround you

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with inspiration.

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How they protect you, unafraid
to call themselves your own.

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How your dreams scramble to come
alive for that smile of yours.

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You truly are magic.

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Seven, you have the ability
to resurrect me from a dream,

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remind me there's something
sweet about a world I

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dream away from constantly.

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Eight, and every
time, every time

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I look at a pair of lost eyes,
or skin with an unknown author,

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I wish I could take your
ethic and your method

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from my notebook.

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Bodies out of that
recollection watch their bodies

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realign to the heartbeats.

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Nine, I hope you
know I understand.

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Despite my eye to the sky
and a hardened skull reply,

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I understand your
truth about me.

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It's just at times I
don't want to be set free.

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And what a demon to face when
you're in the mirror alone.

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10, you are the most beautiful
story I have ever told."

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you guys.

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