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Natural


thick lips / natural
wide nose / natural
kinky hair/ natural
brown eyes/ natural
w i d e     s m i l e / natural
black skin / natural
& if you're proud / of what you
naturally got
then your soul / is beautiful / thus
naturally hot      so be natural
stay natural   swing natural   think natural
and for black god's sake     act   natural


                        Harlem, NYC
                        5 December 1968

Written by Ted Joans (1928-2003)

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