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Solomon Burke

"If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move."

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"If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move."

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"Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren."

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"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."
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"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."
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"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."
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"Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability."
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"We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing."
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"As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better."
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"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."
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"I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me."
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