What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?

~ Stacey Lee

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You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.

~ Stacey Lee

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Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

~ Stacey Lee

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Breathing is underrated.

~ Stacey Lee

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