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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.

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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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