Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/ a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/ i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/ in somebody else's cup...
I won but I wasn__ like Pat. Because__nd why this should be I__l never know__ never did a thing that wasn__ somehow touched with selfish, furtive hunger, with a private, annihilating need for recognition. Because I__ like a child in a fairy tale cursed from birth, and there has never been anything I can put my hand to without tainting it, no triumph so great or solemn that it doesn__ turn spoiled and ridiculous. Because, sooner or later, the darkness always gets in.
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I won but I wasn__ like Pat. Because__nd why this should be I__l never know__ never did a thing that wasn__ somehow touched with selfish, furtive hunger, with a private, annihilating need for recognition. Because I__ like a child in a fairy tale cursed from birth, and there has never been anything I can put my hand to without tainting it, no triumph so great or solemn that it doesn__ turn spoiled and ridiculous. Because, sooner or later, the darkness always gets in.
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