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I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

Source: In New York Times, 23 Jun 1991.
-- Ornette Coleman, (Mar 19 1930-2015), US jazz musician, composer, bandleader; He was the principal initiator and leading exponent of free jazz in the late 1950s.

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