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" I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor. "
Gil Scott-Heron
Personally
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" I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job. "
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