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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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Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call. — Tommy Chong
You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely… — Jimmy Webb
Ali Woodson was one of the few Iconic Soul-Singers left from the Motown Era that could STILL sell out a crowd, light… — Unknown Author
Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist — Smokey Robinson
Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots — Smokey Robinson
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth — Smokey Robinson
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the… — Smokey Robinson
Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day — Smokey Robinson
I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely… — Berry Gordy
Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to… — Berry Gordy
The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were… — Smokey Robinson
When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the… — Roy Wood

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