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Margaret Walker: You is born...

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You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.

Source: Ji`bilee, 1966.
-- Margaret Walker, (Jul 7 1915-1998), US writer, educator; She was one of the most important poets, 1930s; For My People captured the struggles of Southern blacks and won the Yale Younger Poets Award, 1942.


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