If water won't smother the blaze Father, take my tears and bestow them on the firesee if the fires will wither.

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The poet Paul Laurence Dunbar asked, “If water won't smother the blaze,Father, take my tears and bestow them on the firesee if the fires will wither.” He was referring to the fire of racism, which burned so hot during his lifetime. When he wrote these words more than 100 years ago, he was still fighting the racist practices of his time.

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