My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
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I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.Wynton Marsalis
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We've seen each other a lot of times, but it's the first time we had played ... and it was great,
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Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
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