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This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

Source: 1972 interview by Arthur Taylor; in Notes and Tones, 1977.
-- Betty Carter, (May 16 1929-1998), US jazz singer; She began her career as a be-bop and scat singer by winning amateur night at the Apollo; worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles and Charlie Parker.

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