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> [Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-burnett/coming-from-the-south-and-growing-up-in-l-a-where-it-was-so/)

[Charles Burnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-burnett/)

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