“Y’all mean to tell me you would have us all beat, leaned on, sold, maybe even put in the ground because y’all won’t bend a little?” Then he said, but not with his mouth: Don’t you know us all gotta bend, got to, if we want a little bit of anything that might be shaped like serenity? Nobody don’t like to give Massa want he want, but we like even less to give him a reason. And here y’all are giving him all the reason in the world. Before I found Jesus, I understood you. I felt the praise of y’all’s together time and rejoiced. But now, mine eyes have been opened and I see, I see. I tumbled for
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