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If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
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If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.


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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.
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