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Suggest Revision: I had a burning desire to see black people presented on television in a positive light.
 
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Suggest Revision: We got another sound comin' out of Philly that's a sure 'nough dilly.
 
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Suggest Revision: I'm trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for them.
 
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Suggest Revision: There were individuals at the time who were on the proverbial wish list, and before we had to wait too long, they decided to come in. Among the first were the Jackson 5. But we had to go after major people who were coming out of Chicago like the Chi-Lites and Curtis Mayfield. Jerry Butler helped me a lot in the early days to procure talent. Then Motown started to take notice and send people our way.
 
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Suggest Revision: In my neighborhood, it was all jazz for a while. Then we grew up into R&B and soul.
 
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Suggest Revision: I dont know anybody who can define it. Its like trying to define hip-hop. You cant just call it black music. Maybe it will take a few more generations of music lovers to eventually define it.
 
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Suggest Revision: Somebody had to come along and do the format better than we were doing; that didnt happen. Nobody came along to take our place. And remember there wasnt the exposure back then for artists like you have today. Today youre going from Jay-Z and Eminem on 'Letterman' to 'Good Morning America' to The View to 'Oprah.' There are lots of places for singers to go now. Many of the stars we had didnt have any place else to go, except our show for the kind of music they were doing.
 
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Suggest Revision: She is and always will be the first lady of soul. Theres nobody who ever did it like her.
 
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Suggest Revision: Stevie Wonder is the epitome of soul.
 
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Suggest Revision: A guy like me cant be doing 'love, peace and soul!' shtick for the rest of his life until people start to say whats he doing that for? You gotta know when to get out. I loved it, but I just thought somebody younger should be doing it. And the mission got served. If your mission is to provide exposure and suddenly everybody is providing that same exposure, well, its time to go.
 
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