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Thomas Sowell Quotes: Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
         

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.


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