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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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