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The right side of the poster has a drawing of a female figure, shown from the chest up she has long dark hair and is wearing a patterned garment. The left side of the poster has the text: "I release you, my beautiful and terrible / fear. I release you. You were my beloved / and hated twin, but now, I don't know you / as myself. I release you with all the / pain I would know at the death of / my daughters. / You are not my blood any more. / I give you back to the white soldiers / who burned down my home, beheaded my children, / raped and sodomized my brothers and sisters. / I give you back to those who stole the / food from our pLates when we were starving. / I release you, fear, because you hold / these scenes in front of me and I was born / with eyes that can never close. / I release you, fear, so you can no longer / keep me naked and frozen in the winter, / or smothers under blankets in the summer. / I release you. / I release you/ I release you/ I release you / I am not afraid to be angry. / I am not afraid to rejoice. / I am not afraid to be black. / I am not afraid to be white. / I am not afraid to be hungry. / I am not afraid to be full. / I am not afraid to be hated. / I am not afraid to be loved. / to be loved, to be loved, fear. / Oh you have choked me, but I gave / you the leash. / You have gutted me but I gave / you the knife. / You have devoured me, but I laid myself / across the fire / You held my mother down and raped her, / but I gave you the heated thing. / I take myself back, fear. / You are not my shadow any longer. / I won't hold you in my hands. / You can't live in my eyes, my ears, my voice / my belly, or in my heart my heart / my heart my heart / But come here, fear / I am alive and you are so afraid of dying". Bottom of poster has the text: " 'I Give You Back' from She Had Some Horses / Joy Harjo / Presented by Poetry For The People / 7:00 P.M. October 13, 1992 / U.C. Berkeley Wheeler Auditorium".