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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

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Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

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The whole system of society tells you what to do.

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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

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I try to tell a story musically in a song.

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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.

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We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

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The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

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