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

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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."

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"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."

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"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."

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"I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things."

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