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I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black ... 
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Fo' shiz. 
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I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. 
I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t ... 
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. 
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. 
The city was radiant and I felt untouchable. 
I enjoy being single, but I loved being married. 
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. 
What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. 
Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be. 
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