"In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses."

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Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

Darryl Pinckney

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“See with eyes unclouded by hate.”
“If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?”
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“I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.”

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