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If you still have to ask, shame on you

— Louis Armstrong

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Often misquoted as "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (third edition)

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The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
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Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

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