Carrie Mae Weems

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• FROM HERE I SAW WHAT HAPPENED

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• YOU BECOME A
• SCIENTIFIC PROFILE

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• A NEGROID TYPE

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• AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL
• DEBATE

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• & A PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBJECT

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• YOU BECAME MAMMIE, MAMA,
• MOTHER & THEN, YES,
• CONFIDANT - HA

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• DESCENDING THE THRONE
• YOU BECAME FOOT SOLDIER & COOK

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• YOU BECAME UNCLE TOM
• JOHN & CLEMENS' JIM

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• DRIVERS

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• RIDERS &
• MEN OF LETTERS

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• YOU BECAME A WHISPER
• A SYMBOL OF A MIGHTY VOYAGE
• & BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW
• YOU LABOURED FOR SELF
• FAMILY
• & OTHERS

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• FOR YOUR NAMES YOU TOOK
• HOPE & HUMBLE

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• BLACK AND TANNED
• YOUR WHIPPED WIND
• OF CHANGE HOWLED LOW
• BLOWING ITSELF - HA - SMACK
• INTO THE MIDDLE OF
• ELLINGTON'S ORCHESTRA
• BILLIE HEARD IT TOO &
• CRIED STRANGE FRUIT TEARS

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• BORN WITH A VEIL
• YOU BECAME ROOT WORKER
• JUJU MAMA
• VOODOO QUEEN
• HOODOO DOCTOR

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• SOME SAID YOU WERE THE SPITTING IMAGE
• OF EVIL

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• YOU BECAME PLAYMATE
• TO THE PATRIARCH

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• AND THEIR DAUGHTER

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• YOU BECAME AN ACCOMPLICE

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• OUT OF DEEP RIVERS
• MIXED-MATCHED MULATTOS
• A VARIETY OF TYPES MIND YOU - HA
• SPRANG UP EVERYWHERE

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• YOUR RESISTANCE WAS FOUND IN
• THE FOOD YOU PLACED
• ON THE MASTER’S TABLE - HA

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• YOU BECAME
• THE JOKER'S JOKE &

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• ANYTHING
• BUT WHAT YOU WERE
• HA

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• SOME LAUGHED
• LONG & HARD & LOUD

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• OTHERS SAID
• "ONLY THING A NIGGAH
• COULD DO WAS SHINE MY SHOES"

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• YOU BECAME BOOTS,
• SPADES & COONS

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• RESTLESS AFTER
• THE LONGEST WINTER
• YOU MARCHED &
• MARCHED &
• MARCHED

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• IN YOUR SING SONG
• PRAYER YOU ASKED
• DIDN'T MY LORD
• DELIVER DANIEL?

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• AND I CRIED

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