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![“[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland…” quote by Mahershala Ali](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/846/mahershala-ali-6687_areas_crack-epidemic-definitely-has-impacted-f_2345442.jpg)
![“So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an…” quote by Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8b8/steve-jobs-307_astronaut_so-polaroid-s-dr-edwin-land-at-75-went-o_3235574.jpg)
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