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I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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New Orleans
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Wynton Learson Marsalis
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