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“People ask me how I was so far ahead on South Africa. I tell them that when I wrote ‘Johannesburg,’ Nelson Mandela had already been in jail for 11 years. So he didn’t think I was early.”
--Gil Scott-Heron, jazz poet and social critic, to the Associated Press.
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