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                       Human Family                              
                                                                 
               I note the obvious differences                    
               in the human family.                              
               Some of us are serious,                           
               some thrive on comedy.                            
                                                                 
               Some declare their lives are lived                
               as true profundity,                               
               and others claim they really live                 
               the real reality.                                 
                                                                 
               The variety of our skin tones                     
               can confuse, bemuse, delight,                     
               brown and pink and beige and purple,              
               tan and blue and white.                           
                                                                 
               I've sailed upon the seven seas                   
               and stopped in every land,                        
               I've seen the wonders of the world,               
               not yet one common man.                           
                                                                 
               I know ten thousand women                         
               called Jane and Mary Jane,                        
               but I've not seen any two                         
               who really were the same.                         
                                                                 
               Mirror twins are different                        
               although their features jibe,                     
               and lovers think much different thoughts          
               while lying side by side.                         
                                                                 
               We love and lose in China,                        
               we weep on England's moors,                       
               and laugh and moan in Guinea,                     
               and thrive on Spanish shores.                     
                                                                 
               We seek success in Finland,                       
               are born and die in Maine.                        
               In minor ways we differ,                          
               in major we're the same.                          
                                                                 
               I note the obvious differences                    
               between each sort and type,                       
               but we are more alike, my friends,                
               than we are unalike.                              
                                                                 
               We are more alike, my friends,                    
               than we are unalike.                              
                                                                 
               We are more alike, my friends,                    
               than we are unalike.                              
                                                                 
               copyright (c) 1990 by Maya Angelou                
               (from the collection "I Shall Not Be Moved")      
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