LIFE, DEATH IN L.A.
For 25 years or so I’ve had filed in my memory a quotation that I attribute to Malcolm X: “ . . . On the day that I ceased to think of myself as a black man or a white man, and became simply a human--on that day I became truly dangerous to the system.”
JAMES VER HOEF
Cypress
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