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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it."
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"I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything."
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"When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review."
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"Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless."
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"Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment."

"I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise."

"All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for."

"I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America."

"I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution."

"I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life."

"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."
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