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nice is such a rip-off.

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Ntozake Shange
Age: 70 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 18
Died: 2018
Died: October 27
Actor
Choreographer
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Trenton
New Jersey
Paulette L. Williams
Paulette Williams
Paulette Linda Williams
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i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up
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Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
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in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.
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