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If you take a particle down, past neutrinos, you get vortexes, little whirlpools of energy. This is amazing, because what it really means, is everything is the same. Everything is one of those, in various combinations.

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There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?

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You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

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The suburbanization and the ghettos that were created as a result of the limits of where [African-Americans] could live in the North [still exist today. ] And. . . the South was forced to change, in part because they were losing such a large part of their workforce through the Great Migration.

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And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South. ' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.

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It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

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People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.

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