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There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have…

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Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and…
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is…
Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon…
People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some…
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee…
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white…
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't…
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from…
There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example,…
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most…

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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation… — James A. Baldwin
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented… — Willa Cather
A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world. — Oliver Hardy
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes… — Lewis H. Lapham
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether. — Greil Marcus
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness… — Harvey Dorfman
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and… — Augustin Thierry
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of… — Irwin Shaw
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes… — Jerry Falwell
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist. — Charlie Munger
The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why… — Larry Brilliant

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