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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for…
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Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people…
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A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in…
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To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that…
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A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
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What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of…
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and…
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains…
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or…
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Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to…
— Ray Charles
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one…
— John Henrik Clarke
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All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.
— Dave Barry
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I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and…
— Della Reese
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There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal…
— Johnny Winter
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This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a…
— Don King
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When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while -…
— Ray Charles
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James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of…
— Michael Jackson
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I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer
— Michael Bolton
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Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather…
— Bruce Lansky
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I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.
— Chino XL
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I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve…
— Boz Scaggs
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