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FOXY

FOXY

_____

You never forget your first

 

Infatuation.

 

Mine was the big thing

Decades before 

Other honeys 

Entered the picture.

 

Soul Cinema action queen

 

Did her own stunts,

Did her own Afro,

Wasted no time

Kicking ass on the big screen.

 

First of her kind.

 

The baddest one-chick hit squad that ever hit town!

 

Mine had no is...

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Pam Grier   1970s America   Soul Cinema   movie theatres   childhood memories   infatuation   American Black sayings

TWO MODELS

TWO MODELS

___________

"Game recognises game"

 

Popular saying

Used in some 

Black people's 

Conversations

 

Normally blurted out

When someone sees

Their best qualities

In another.

 

Example given:

 

Back in the 1950s,

A Florida 

Cheesecake model

Didn't want to 

Limit herself to being

Before flashing cameras.

So she switched positio...

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Bunny Yeager   Bettie Page   1950s America   Florida   pin-ups   photography   modelling   American Black sayings

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