* La vaca, "the cow" in Spanish.
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Knowing you might some day come and how unprepared I’ve always been like Mr. Sloppy in Charles Dickens’
When you see water in a stream you say: oh, this is stream water; When you see water in the river you say: oh, this is water
Let other leaders Retire To play golf & write Memoirs
To change the world enough you must cease to be afraid of the poor. We experience your fear as the lea… humiliations; in the past
I said to Poetry:"I’m finished with you." Having to almost die before some wierd light comes creeping through
The old men used to sing And lifted a brother Carefully Out the door I used to think they
Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around
If my sorrow were deeper I’d be, along with you, under the ocean’s floor; but today I learn that the oil that pools beneath the ocean floor
His posture From so many years Holding his robe with one hand Is odd. His gait
I Sing of Mumia brilliant and strong and of the captivity that few black men escape
Going out to the garden this morning to plant seeds for my winter greens —the strong, fiery mustard
My brothers knew The things you know. I did not scorn learning them; It’s just my mind
If I was President The first thing I would do is call Mumia Abu—Jamal. No, if I was president
Word reaches us that you are sleeping, sleeping. Dismayed we have turned to the sea. We encounter among others