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from the continent is inevitable.
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all the museums in the world,
all the art galleries,
all the exhibition spaces,
are uninhabitable spaces

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to get in
It will be much harder
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it is typically easier
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The Farmer of Colors
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of chromatic linguistics
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Wèrèpè
Wèrèpè má so mọ́.
Devil bean weed, stop producing seeds,
Èyí tó o so lésǐn,
The seeds you produced last season
Baba ẹnìkan ò ka.