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"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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DISCOVERY [ EXCERPT ]

DISCOVERY [ EXCERPT ]

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Patrolling the street

On the Brooklyn beat

Wasn't enough for

Jerry Tibbs.

 

The married N.Y.P.D. officer

On some days would shed 

His dark blue uniform & wore

The sable one he was

Born with.

Just a man enjoying his spare time,

His busy hands worked a camera.

 

On Coney Island's 

White sandy beach,

He found...

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