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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
Sun Ra
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Sun Ra
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 22
Died: 1993
Died: May 30
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Birmingham
Alabama
Sonny Blount
Herman Sonny Blount
Herman Poole Blount
Herman Blount
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Herman Lee
Le Sun Ra
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Sonny Bourke
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I have many names some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.
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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
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If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
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Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
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What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
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In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.
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I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
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