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Mr. President, you help write your nation's songs and poems,

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and you also help write your nation's laws. You have been an architect of your country's independence.

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You have been the poet in the great sense of the aspirations of the people of Africa.

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And you will come, as you do, to this country and see millions of men and women who came from Africa to the United States,

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who are building their lives here and making for them a strong place in the American society.