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That's the deal." "You're neither one
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thing or the other.
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You're Silky Silk."
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This takes the question of categorization--are you colored?
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Are you not?--it negates it: you're neither one thing nor another,
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but then reinstates it in a different mode: you're Silky Silk.
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Make up a new category for yourself.
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So, Doc Chizner takes that transgressing use of precision that
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we see in the cocker spaniel metaphor in the child's imagination,
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and he shows Coleman how to apply that to living race in America,
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living his race in America.
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You are Silky Silk.