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Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space where they could play with roles and styles, conduct esthetic experiments and win money and praise.


Margo Jefferson

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Before the curtain closed?
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And...
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It doesn't change anything,
Except the way I see myself,
An...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde...
THOMAS JEFFERSON When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the stre...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve...
THOMAS JEFFERSON With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been sta...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest mode...
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