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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."
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"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."
"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."
"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X."
"And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."
"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."
"If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you."
"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."
"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."
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