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Quotation of the Day for July 11, 2010"If I'm going to die, I'm ready. But I'm going out playing `Sophisticated Lady.' " - Charles Mingus, musician, on refusing to leave a concert venue in 1972 that had received a bomb threat. Mingus told police "Racism planted that bomb, but racism ain't strong enough to kill this music." [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/05/17/100517crat_atlarge_pierpont?currentPage=6#ixzz0oBWZi] Submitted by: Trevor Goodyear Jul. 7, 2010 |
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