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"I was 15 years of age when I first started having my own private sit-ins."
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"It’s not his bad days that are hard, it’s my bad days that are hard."
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“She wasn’t like the mothers of my friends...she lived and breathed dancing.”
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"You came home and you brought singles, five dollar bills, and coins, and we started playing McDonald's."
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"Just roll with it."
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"I wanted to get out there and shoot a gun. I wanted to go in the dirt. But we weren't allowed to."
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"I just started calling the sharks names of dirty, rotten, stinkin’ rock and rollers."
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"It was more than just hitting and catching and throwing."
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“My father did what no black man at the time was supposed to do, he allowed his car to run out of gas.”
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"Ron was someone who didn't accept societal norms as being his norm."
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“This is a spiritual journey.”
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"You told me you were so tired that you had fallen asleep at a red light."
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