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I would like to
end with two poems.

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The one has become something
of a signature poem,

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and that it's probably
my best known poem.

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It has been recorded by three
different groups that I know of.

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I mean, they're very
different records, which

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is always interesting to me.

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And if I can't find
it, I do know it.

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So there you are.

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Well, I can't,
but this is a poem

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about-- this is a fun poem
because poetry can be fun.

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Lots of serious stuff
is funny, you know?

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Richard Pryor proved that.

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I have a poem that says the
difference between Richard

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Pryor and Eddie Murphy--

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this is some more [INAUDIBLE].

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Richard Pryor-- what is it?

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Rich is an old--

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no.

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Eddie, he a young guy.

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He think everything's funny.

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Richard, he's been
around a long time.

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He know ain't nothing, really.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I think that's probably true.

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The first one is the poem
that people know me by,

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and it is called
"Homage to My Hips."

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And it is kind of-- it's a
reclaiming of this culture which

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likes big stuff
except for women.

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[LAUGHTER]

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You know what I mean?

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Some of you know what I mean.

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We like big houses, big cars,
big TVs, teeny little women.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I like to think of myself
as a luxury-sized woman.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I am expensive.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And all like that.

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And so this poem is fun,
but this is also serious.

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If I know it.

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Let's see.

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Oh, yes.

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"Homage to My Hips."

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"These hips are big hips.

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They need space
to move around in.

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They don't fit into
little petty places.

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These hips are free hips.

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They don't like to be held back.

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These hips have
never been enslaved.

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They go where they want to go.

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They do what they want to do.

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These hips are magic hips.

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These hips are mighty hips.

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I have known them to
put a spell on a man

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and to spin him like a top."

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[APPLAUSE]

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