The signifying Monkey Was still setting in his tree. When he looked down and saw the Lion. Said, Why, Lion, who can that there be? Lion said, It's me. ...
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The monkey started into that signifying. He said, "Mr. Lion, I got something to tell you today."; He said, "The way this motherfucker been talking 'bout you I know you'll sashay."; (He told the lion); He said, "Mr. Lion, the way he talking 'bout your mother, down your cousins, I know damn well you don't play the dozens.
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Just to run into the monkey and more of his signifying jive. The little monkey said, "Look here, partner, you don't look so swell. Looks to me like you caught a whole lot of hell."; Said, "Your eyes is red and your ass is blue.
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Now the lion come through the jungle one peaceful day, When the signifying monkey stopped him and this what he started to say. He said, "Mr. Lion," he said, "A bad-assed motherfucker down your way. He said, "Yeah!
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The Signifying Monkey takes its title from what Gates argues is the central metaphor, "the trope of tropes," in Afro-American literature. There is, according to Gates, an entire series of oral narrative poems about the "signifying monkey" in the black tradition.
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A blend of political humor and social commentary ... minus an occasional beer at the White House of course. Could it be that Barack Obama has bought into this post-racial concept as shaped by the media? Surely Michael Steele has, and me calling him a monkey isn't racist. ... What Tami Said...
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The primary poison is the Word – the Pharmakos – the one who stands-in-for.  All other poisons function through this one, the signifying poison.  Signifying monkey.  Jesus should have been stoned, not crucified.
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Down in the jungle near a dried-up ereek, The signifying monkey haddt slept for a week; Remembering the ass-kicking he had got in the past; He had to find somebody to kick the lion's ass. Said the signifying monkey to the lion that very same day, "There's a bad motherfucker heading your way.
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The lion come through the jungle one peaceful day, when the signifying monkey stopped him, and this is what he started to say: 'Mr. Lion', he said, 'a bad-assed motherfucker down your way': he said, ÔYeah!
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This has to be the dumbest shit I’ve read in a very long time - Chuck D is a signifying monkey. The author of that article, Al Barger, made several statements that must be refuted. The first of which is this: ... (But supposin’ she said she loved me); Would you still love her; Or would you dismiss her; What is pure?
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