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I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Evangelist
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South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
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