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Street Life
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Through all of those different wars, we came to understand each other. The Mason’s fellas just wanted to chill in their area and be left alone. The Border Boys basically wanted the same thing. Stinky and Robert just wanted to be able to sell their drugs and make their money. But us, we were on a mission to take over the whole town. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members
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― The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
― The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
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Reno was somebody from the streets. I think he took to me because he saw me as somebody from the streets, somebody who hated to see the sun go down on Eighth Avenue, who would run up on Amsterdam Avenue, follow the sun down the hill, across Broadway, to the Drive and the Hudson River, and then would wait for the sun to come back. I guess Reno thought he'd found somebody who was destined to be in the streets of Harlem for the rest of his life.
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― Manchild in the Promised Land
― Manchild in the Promised Land
I am L. K. Pinder.
I am a Spoken Word Artist.
I write poetry inspired by urban fiction books.
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