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单词 stay woke
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stay woke
2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice; frequently in stay woke (often used as an exhortation).In later use perhaps popularized through its association with African-American civil rights activism (in recent years particularly the Black Lives Matter movement), and by the lyrics of the 2008 song Master Teacher by American singer-songwriter Erykah Badu, in which the words I stay woke serve as a refrain.For earlier metaphorical use of woke up in political context, see quot. 1943 at woke up adj.
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1962 W. M. Kelley in N.Y. Times Mag. 20 May 45 If you're woke, you dig it... Woke.., well-informed, up-to-date (‘Man I'm woke’).
1972 B. Beckham Garvey Lives! (typescript, Univ. of Virginia) Prol. 1 I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk.
2009 @jonubian 29 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Dec. 2016) They used the RICO laws to imprison Mutulu Shakur..#staywoke #preventativedetention.
2015 @hopiee19 30 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Dec. 2016) The best thing about having a lesbian Grandma is that she is woke af.
2017 Daily Maverick (S. Afr.) (Electronic ed.) 11 Oct. We thought we'd put together a handy guide of things woke male feminists should know and live by.
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