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If You Want To Be Different, Do Something Different.

The Musicians, Duke Ellington, His Thing Was Not About Separating Himself From The Rest Of America. Louis Armstrong - Go To The Forefathers Of Our Music - Jelly Roll Morton - They're Not Preaching A Separatist Agenda. They're Not Taking Their Music And Saying, "this Is For Me."

I Believed In Studying Just Because I Knew Education Was A Privilege. It Was The Discipline Of Study, To Get Into The Habit Of Doing Something That You Don't Want To Do.

Many Heroic Things Happened During Slavery. And Remember That There Was A National Movement Away From It Even At The Time. The Era Of Reconstruction And Then The Subsequent Dismantling Of Reconstruction Sent Us In A Tailspin. Then We Had The Civil Rights Movement. Now We Have Our First Non-white President. We Have A Pattern Of Moving Apart And Then Coming Back Together Throughout The History Of This Country. Each Time, We Come Closer.

My Daddy Expected That My Brothers And I And Our Generation Would Make The World A Better Place. He Had Lived In An America Of Continual Social Progress.