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Copyright © 2017 by Jessica B. Harris
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Excerpt from “To a Man” on page 1 from Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie: Poems by Maya Angelou, copyright © 1971 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
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