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"SHAKE IT OFF"
"MACHO"
"BE A MAN"
"REAL MEN DON'T CRY"
"RUB SOME DIRT ON IT"
"POWER"
"Gay"
"LIKE A GIRL"
"SUCK IT UP"
"JUST DO IT"
"DOMINATE"
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We Wear the Mask
By: Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
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