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Someone Birthed Them Broken

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The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott by Jill Scott

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“Oh no Jill, he too black and Lord Lord what would them babies look like?”

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
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“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
― James Baldwin

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“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

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“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
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