That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It ain't for the white man to rule. Ain't for any man to rule.

Jonathan Odell
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  1. Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.

  2. That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It ain't for the white man to rule. Ain't for any man to rule.

  3. But remember this. When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

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  5. The biggest thing the white man takes from us ain’t our bodies. He takes our voices, too. He swallows up our yes’s and no’s like biscuits. But one day our yes’s and no’s will be so loud and strong they will lodge in his throat....

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