It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
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Nationality: American Type: Entertainer Born: June 27, 1927 Death: January 23, 2004 |
“I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'”
“The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.”