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"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago."

"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946."

"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
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"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."


"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth."


"It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street."


"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."


"But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know."
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