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" I was listening to a lot of Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Black Flag, Swans, Miles Davis, Diamanda Galas, The Gun Club, Einstürzende Neubauten, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane records.
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Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
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Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
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In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
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Upon listening to " Tutti Frutti ", Bowie would later say, " I had heard God ".
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She's been hangin' around me a lot here lately, and I figgered I might as well's try it.
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They were always leaping to light cigarettes, open car doors, fill plates or glasses, and I mistrusted the whole lot of them to the same degree that I mistrusted bake shops that called themselves `` Sanitary Bake Shops ''.
What I find appalling -- and really dangerous -- is the American assumption that the Negro is so contented with his lot here that only the cynical agents of a foreign power can rouse him to protest.
I wasn't far behind him when he entered the parking lot and hurried over to his car.
I circled the block and found he was in the parking lot of a high-class restaurant.
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and I knew they knew it, for I'd told them a lot of it.
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Via was in the parking lot when I went outside.
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I had a lot to be thankful for.
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