How Can Some Experience What Pride Is Without Liberation for All?

I painted
I painted
I painted
I had nothing else to do
The canvas bled
As red as my first pressed Tattoo You

Marched me to insanity
Humanity single-handedly shat on me
Suggesting I should add white and blue
White and blue
Red, white and blue

Picture this! Picture this!
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Picture this! Picture this!
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Picture this! Picture this!
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Picture this! Picture this!
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"Never Mind the Bollocks," I'm no singer
But my voice is on borrowed time so I'll continue
Elaborate on my picture
Inspired by the work of Keith Haring—a philanthropist
Art is for everybody, and everybody should be an activist!

The fact of the matter is, we're divided!
But we can educate the ignorant;
Reshape education, highlight what mass genocide is
Equality and equity! The sound of that, I like it
But that cannot be of focus until justice is provided

How can some experience what pride is without liberation for all?
The oppressed have the right to riot
Like Marsha. P. Johnson throughout Stonewall!
Discrimination based on migration, I'll never understand
But I'll join the cry to protest, and with you, I stand

As an alliance, who will not remain quiet
And if you're yet to try it, read Ralph Laurence's
"Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence"
Read, listen, write to your local politician
And if you don't step up and be counted
You won't be protected by your silence

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