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Speaker 1: Oh, god, father, you know that I believe in you but I just don't think it's fair for us to have to fight like hell down here and then do the same damn thing there
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Speaker 1:Now, father god, I want you to hear me, and please consider this black man's prayer and build a high neon sign in heaven stating that you'll have no discrimination up there. Thank you
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[Aplause]
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Speaker 1:Thank you
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Speaker 2: Suppose how many pieces do you currently perform which are similar to that which you just did there?
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Speaker 1: Well, I've been writing quite some time and I dare not state how many poems I have written because it is possibility that I have will make a mistake.
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But Ummm, I think I will be close to right about say that I have written about maybe two, two and a half to three thousand poems and uh as of yet, I have never had an opportunity
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to have a book made or to put them out on the streets
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Speaker 1: There usually said around people who are black because of the fact that I was afraid to recite them in the presence of white people
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Afraid of what reaction they may take.
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Now ladies and gentlemen. There's another poem that I would like to recite to you and believe me I am not prejudiced and just that I came upon such strangerous condition and uh I was afraid to talk about them outright.
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But god, gave me the ability to try and relate it to people in a song.
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You know, in musical form where there would be no disturbance.
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This is titled "My birthplace"