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Lionel Hampton

"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."

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Donna Grant

"You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile."

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Donna Grant

"We have to change our thoughts before things can change."

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Donna Grant

"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

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Donna Grant

"You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes."

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Donna Grant

"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."

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Donna Grant

"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."

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Donna Grant

"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."

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Donna Grant

"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

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Donna Grant

"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."

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Donna Grant

"Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!"

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Lionel Hampton
"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."

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Lionel Hampton
"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."

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Lionel Hampton
"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."

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Lionel Hampton
"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."

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Lionel Hampton
"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

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Lionel Hampton
"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."

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Lionel Hampton
"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."

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Lionel Hampton
"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

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Lionel Hampton
"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."

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Lionel Hampton
"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."

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