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To Anita


high/yellow/black/girl
walken like the sun u be.
move on even higher.
         those who
laugh at yo/color
         have not moved
to the blackness we be about
cuz as Curtis Mayfield be sayen
we people be darker than blue
         and quite a few
of us be yellow
         all soul/shades of
blackness.
         yeah. high/yellow/black/girl
     walk yo/black/song
       cuz some of us
         be hearen yo/sweet/music.

Written by Sonia Sanchez

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