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Quote by Jonathan Lethem
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement,

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. – Jonathan Lethem

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