dogs!

scooby-doo was trying to tell us something when every time that monster mask got snatched off it was a greedy white dude.

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in ’97, a black comic gets on stage, says, you ever notice how white dogs be like woof woof & black dogs be like ruff ruff motherfuckaaaaa!!

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the dog upstairs won’t shut up & i’ve thought of ending his little noisy life but i have to remember he matters he matters & if i did the brown girl upstairs would cry forever.

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dog (n.): a man’s best friend. (see: fetch, roll over, K-9, good boy, put down.) ex. my dog died, I had to do it with my own hands.

dawg (n.): a man’s best friend. (see: blunt rolled already, handshake, my nigga, put me on.) ex. my dawg died, he did it with his own hands.

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dogs in this house eat the same thing we do. we eat greens, he eat greens. fried bologna, neck bones, leftovers.

   ... he died from the suga, the gout or whatever came for big mama came back for the dog.

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everybody love Lassie, but what about Sounder?

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possible rite of passage #37: graduating from outrunning the block’s dogs to outrunning the block’s police.

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i too have been called boy & expected to come, kneel.

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what Animorph did you want to be? i wanted to be the boy who turned into the bird limp in the dog’s wet mouth, holding me toward his human saying  I made this for you.

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the dog upstairs needs to stop running his mouth talking all that shit I can hear him up there fool don’t think i understand he don’t know i got a bark too teeth too thumbs & a terrible child’s mind.

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something about Air Bud felt ... the talented obedient beast, the roar of the eggshell crowd.

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dogs aren’t racist but they can be trained to be so as can the water as can the trees as can gravity as can anything marked by a pale hand & turned bloodgold a bi