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Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

quote by Gerhard Schroder
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As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.

quote by Steve Mitchell
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Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

quote by Fredric Jameson
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The Rhyming Poem That You Ask

aye! aye! aye
did you watch the ballet?
at the bay between the beltway
of the green beret
who did not betray
on her birthday somewhere in Bombay
she threw the bouquet
after the broadway
ran to the bikeway and had buffet
by the way is there a cachet?
did she do the crochet?
at the chalet and the chambray?
did she love Dante
who dare say on that day
was it tooth decay
of the deejay on its doomsday
by the doorway? why delay
and not defray
right away?
find the dossier read and no

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Mirror! Mirror On The Wall

Mirror! mirror on my wall
My outright downfall
The vanity of my call
My virtue's recall
I keep trying and believing
One day I'll hit the mark
And birth the one gem
To the envy of eying skies
Attempting to downplay
My precious covenant prize
For I am stubborn like a mule
I refuse to burn my fuel
On critiques of wish and wash
Unleashing petty jealousy cries
Mocking my written verse
My pride their illustrious curse
I will cruise to the finish line
My back to their avalanche
The gift of envy carries my footsteps
Over broken bridges of no return

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poem by leaking Pen
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What Is Said

How could I ever tell you how important what you say
can be
that the words of any man in a day
can affect a life, millions, or even me
our words have so much power
so do not cower
and do not shy away
do not hold back what you want to say
because your words affect a lifetime
speak your mind
all shall be fine
do not fear rejection for the reward is sublime
to save life or cause a turn
to help the world, or save one destined to burn
but forget not that words destroy and create
break down and perpetuate
the power of words and their force of love
the power of words and their capacity for sadistic destruction
forget not that you hold inside this death and life
the power to create argument and strife

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poem by David Knox
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Hard For Them to Believe

I was asked,
At a time...
If I knew what I was doing?
As if my thoughts,
Could not produce my deeds.
As if my efforts,
Did not match where I lived.
Since I was born and lived in the ghetto.
And I should not be aware or know,
Of those things I did!

As If my blackness was for them limited!
Like it was for friends I had,
And some relatives.
All believing then I was trying to be white...
And not the black neighborhood kid!
Who did for me,
What I knew was right!

They believed I should be,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Suicidal Idiocies for Life's Deficiencies

Suicide has such an overwhelmingly sadistic, succumbing seduction when pain seems so severly inevitable to treat or avoid its grip based on our abilities, or lack thereof, to not only recognize much more appealing emotions linked to suicide, but also to discipline the monitoring of our personal thoughts and actions into the seemingly impossible thoughts surrounding the actions of inspirational survival as well as the persevering passion for the ultimate recovery from such severly damaging excuses suicide attempts to create as a self-fulfilling validation for what a pathetic, worthless ambition it has been for you to have lived, to keep living, and to have ambition's true, authentic glory fulfilled only through the joyful, exuberant eternity given to us after death life could only dream about waking up to its never ceasing reality we can't even imagine its existence of until we are dead. In this contradicting sense of our battle between the reality realized every day we continue to live versus the extremely cumbersome, intensely overbearing obscurity of a death that is never realized its depth of reality until it has been finalized in only one day's actions, it seems like such a more profitable ambition to force death's one opportunity for the ultimate glory of your life to take a much more natural, healthier course of action that only life has numerous opportunities for not only securing the glory strengthened by living a life free from obscurity, but also securing the glory strengthened by a much more subdued, peaceful death leading to a much stronger sense of exuberant eternity suicide only seeks to destroy and severely downplay the significant worth of your life before and throughout all of your existing eternity. Live a great life rather than dying every day you could have been alive waiting for death's eventual obscurity validated through your willingness in living a highly fulfilling, significant life others will envy to imitate your life giving example in rejecting Suicidal Idiocies for Life's Deficiencies by indulging in Life's Unbelievably Potential Sufficiencies.

poem by Bill Darrah
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Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)

Well find a way regardless
To make some sense out of this mess
Well, It's a test, but I believe
A kiss is all we need
All the above for being in love
Shouldnt that alone be enough
Oh, It's tough when loves a weed
It grows inside of me
Nothings ever gonna stand in my
Nothings ever gonna stand in my
Nothings ever gonna stand in my way again
Waste the days, waste the nights
Try to downplay being uptight
Oh, you're right, but I believe
A kiss is all we need
Nothings ever gonna stand in my
Nothings ever gonna stand in my
Nothings ever gonna stand in my way again
A watch that ticks is wrapped around my wrist
(Oh no)

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song performed by Wilco
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A Sorta Fairytale

on my way up north
up on the ventura
i pulled back the hood
and i was talking to you
and i knew then it would be
a life long thing
but i didn't know that we
we could break a silver lining

and i'm so sad
like a good book
i can't put this day back
a sorta fairytale
with you
a sorta fairytale
with you

things you said that day
up on the 101
the girl had come undone

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song performed by Tori Amos from Scarlet's Walk
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