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This is the poem "Affirmation" by Assata Shakur. I believe in living.I believe in the spectrumof Beta days and Gamma people.I believe in sunshine.In windmills and waterfalls,tricycles and rocking chairs.And I believe that seeds grow into sprouts.And sprouts grow into trees.I believe in the magic of the hands.And in the wisdom of the eyes.I believe in rain and tears.And in the blood of infinity. I believe in life.And i have seen the death parademarch through the torso of the earth,sculpting mud bodies in its path.I have seen the destruction of the daylight,and seen bloodthirsty maggotsprayed to and saluted. I have seen the kind become the blindand the blind become the bindin one easy lesson.I have walked on cut glass.I have eaten crow and blunder breadand breathed the stench of indifference. I have been locked by the lawless.Handcuffed by the haters.Gagged by the greedy.And, if I know any thing at all,it’s that a wall is just a walland nothing more at all.It can be broken down. I believe in living.I believe in