"If we could buy these properties and then……" — Solomon Burke
"If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move."
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25 Quotes by Solomon Burke
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The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
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Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
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Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.
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Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.
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One of us is chained, none of us is free.
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I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
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Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
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Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
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As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
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I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.
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I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I…
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I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
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