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I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

Assata Shakur

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Assata Shakur
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 14
Activist
Jamaica
Queens
Joanne Deborah Byron
Many
Midnight
Must
Blues
Spent
Rain
Guess
Early
Hummed
Move
Wailing
Moving
Confess

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