"It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do."
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"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."
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"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
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"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing."
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"I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive."
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"I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon."
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"No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you."
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"Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood."
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"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."
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"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric."
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"Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost."
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"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
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"I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation."
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"Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be."
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"All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake."
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"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
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"The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies."
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"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."
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"I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community."
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"There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans, whereas we black folk tend to be much more sensitive about embracing others, and we have a long history of that."
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