America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when … - Paul Mooney

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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. . . says heaven and earth in one word. . . speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

Paul Mooney

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

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A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

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I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

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People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

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If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

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We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.

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