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" Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability. "
Apollo
Records
Me
" As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better. "
Older
Better
Grow
" But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do. "
Right
Black
Financial
" I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. "
Streets
Down
Hands
" I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do. "
Money
Company
Enough
" I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records. "
Publish
Company
Depend
" I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive. "
Make
Need
Survive
" If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move. "
Black
Great
McDonald
" I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me. "
Me
People
Remembered
" I should have my own publishing companies. "
My Own
Should
Publishing
" I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung! "
Fat
Shrimp
Box
" I want to be a soul singer. "
Singer
Soul
Want
" I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel. "
Weeks
Hotel
MGM
" Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time. "
Time
Label
Passed
" My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation. "
Together
Soul
Manager
" Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make. "
Our
Controversy
Choices
" That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man. "
Time
Beautiful
Wise
" The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists. "
Time
Made
Black
" The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out. "
Work
Stay
Secret
" We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else. "
Way
Children
Thinking
" We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming. "
Remember
Direction
Myself
" We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing. "
Money
Tool
Real Estate
" You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud. "
Integrity
Class
Yourself
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