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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that’s ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

Babatunde Adebimpe

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