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"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too."
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"The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart."
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"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."
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"Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean."
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"My heart want to feel the touch.Feel the eternal love so much."
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"Feel, now let your heart be your light; imagination is your way and bliss is your destination."
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"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
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"The heart has reasons that the mind will never understand."
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"Dear heart, love everyone and anyone. Please make me nonjudgmental."
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"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray."
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"True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety."
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"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do."
Trouble
"We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old."
Life
"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home."
Home
"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too."
Heart
"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television."
People
"I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe."
Europe
"We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother."
Brother
"I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins."
School
"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."
Old
"It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this."
Men
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