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in the Denver colored section
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wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world
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had offered was not enough ecstasy for me,
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not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness,
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music, not enough night.
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He goes on in this vein for that whole paragraph
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if you just skim down. I was only myself,
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Sal Paradise, sad, strolling in this violet dark,
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this unbearably sweet night
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wishing I could exchange worlds with the happy,
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true-hearted, ecstatic Negroes of America.
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Well, this is hugely stereotypical, hugely appropriative.