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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
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Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.
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