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Influenced by comedy greats such as Dick Gregory, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, and even a little Eddy Murphy, damali makes the hard issues easier through her "standup/smackdown" style that leaves audiences with their attention heightened, hearts open, and minds awake.
damali ayo brings a unique style of playful humor and piercing honesty to the conversation about race and human relationships.
damali ayo uses art, wit and satire to expose the remedial state of race relations with such creations as "the race card," "white noise," "panhandling for reparations," and the website "rent-a-negro.com." The international success of the web site was followed by her best-selling book How to Rent a Negro, a satirical guidebook that explores the absurd state of race relations in our culture.
No need to look back The past is gone forever A new year to acknowledge That things must get better Work is here to stay Was here at the beginning of time Master a craft my friend As poetry will forever remain mine Unity is in sight Resist it not with selfish ego Humanity is no stranger to one power We all are children to live & grow Love is the key To unlock the door to peace Stay locked out if you will One thing will be fulfilled with or without you; The Prophecy
Lift every voice and sing, till earth and Heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of liberty; Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet, Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered; Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee. Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee. Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand, True to our God, true to our native land.
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Industrial chemists messing with elements they don't understand ! One-eye is king and is leading the blind. Sometimes Earth is called the Garden of Eden, start playing the work has been done a long time ago let go and drown in those streams of consciousness. Are you ready to come home ? Being awareness and bliss. Thou art that.
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