With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man! - James Weldon Johnson

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Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to their physical bodies. They see the funeral as a ritual for the living so they don't always attend.

James Weldon Johnson

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

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The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

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Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

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