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And maybe one more of those.

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It was really great to imagine
what he might say to his shadow

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when nobody was listening.

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"The Shadow Knows."

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"You're not fooling me by
quoting Shakespeare, Mr.

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Champion of the Negro World.

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No matter how carefully you
enunciate, Tiny was a slave

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and the conditions
of the son follow

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the conditions of the mother.

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Emancipation didn't
change a thing.

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Ask John L. Jeffries,
ask Jim Jeffries,

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ask Gentleman Jim or any of the
other color-line-calling white

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fighters.

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Better yet, ask Tiny.

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Your ex-chattel
mama will tell you

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all about the
unconditionalness of blackness.

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You can wreck an auto and
buy a new one the next day,

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but you can't buy equality.

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You can change your
clothes five times a day

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while speaking
Italian and playing

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the viol in that
fancy classical way,

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but you can't change your skin.

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What do you know, Shadow?

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I'm trying to better myself."

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Thank you.

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