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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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"The real safety net of life is community, family and nature."
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"We are members of the Church of Christ."
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"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."
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"If you can establish yourself in the community as a giver, those people with whom you associate yourself will extend your branding far beyond you."
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"When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin."
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"It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding."
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"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."
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"Only the church can provide people with quality fellowship."
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"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
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"Everyone deserves to be in our fellowship."
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"The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists."
Time
"As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better."
Life
"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."
Time
"I should have my own publishing companies."
Publishing
"I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me."
People
"I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive."
Fortune
"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."
Business
"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."
Company
"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."
Community
"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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