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“I cannot be what I ought to be, unless you are what you ought to be, and you cannot be what you ought to be unless I am what I ought to be.”.     Martin Luther King **tonight, saw a woman dance to these words...** body precision pinpoint akimbo shaking, testifying with every limb, this be, a sensible truth.... **the music of the words, no music but the words, uttered in his kingly voice, that was the only instrument present, more than sufficient...** long after, the theater dark, audience and dancers, dispatched onto the New York City dark despairing winter's icing streets, I am tasting them on my tongue, out loud as they should be spoke.... **not going to essay, meaning plain, not going diminish their simplicity....** but this I can say, this will feed my consciousness, a long time coming.... and I will be that much closer to who I ought to be
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 12:15 AM UTC
I cannot be what I ought to be...
“I cannot be what I ought to be, unless you are what you ought to be, and you cannot be what you ought to be unless I am what I ought to be.”.     Martin Luther King **tonight, saw a woman dance to these words...** body precision pinpoint akimbo shaking, testifying with every limb, this be, a sensible truth.... **the music of the words, no music but the words, uttered in his kingly voice, that was the only instrument present, more than sufficient...** long after, the theater dark, audience and dancers, dispatched onto the New York City dark despairing winter's icing streets, I am tasting them on my tongue, out loud as they should be spoke.... **not going to essay, meaning plain, not going diminish their simplicity....** but this I can say, this will feed my consciousness, a long time coming.... and I will be that much closer to who I ought to be
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 12:15 AM UTC
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