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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

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