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BLACK AND WHITE

MARCUS GARVEY

I'm black not white, which is no crime;
To have all things makes one so great:
If blacks did have, all whites would crave
More black to be for all that time.
The whites have ALL, in regal state,
And blacks do think them more sublime
But whites would think the blacks so brave
If they had greater wealth all time.

1934