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“I was managing the studio”
: Ibid.

“They didn't have a record deal”
: Abbey, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“It was something that Curtis”
: Ibid.

“Some of the tracks were very good”
: Ibid.

“I think all of us were very lucky”
: Ibid.

“You have to remember”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 269.

“Curtis Mayfield was hip-hop”
: KRS-One, interview by Atria

“I don't see any great differences”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 279.

“It's not that they can't create”
: Light, “Lasting Impression.”

“We're talking about character here”
: Witter, “Now More Than Ever.”

“Curtis Mayfield was making a comeback”
: Markowitz, interview by Atria.

13. Never Say You Can't Survive

“Listen, you get on stage”
: Markowitz, interview by Atria.

Markowitz ascended the stairs
: Ibid.

“I think so, but I can't move”
: Goodness, interview by Atria.

“I knew what had happened”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 267.

“When I got there, he had”
: Sharon Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“I remember reading a telegram”
: Tracy Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield, 2014.

“We arrived [at the venue]”
: Light, “Lasting Impression.”

“It happened, and it happened fast”
: Williams, “Everything Was a Song.”

“Aches come and go”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 267.

“He never said, ‘Why me?'”
: Stuart, interview by Atria.

“When I would go to visit”
: Sharon Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield, 2014.

“When I was a little girl”
: Ibid.

“At this point, there was no more”
: Tracy Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield, 2014.

“He got mad from that bed”
: Ibid.

“I think overall I'm dealing”
: Light, “Lasting Impression.”

“Some good doctor somewhere may”
: Ibid.

“I'm a fifty-four-year-old quadriplegic”
: Burns,
People Never Give Up
, 238.

a national poll showed only 15 percent
: Bauerlein et al.,
Civil Rights Chronicle
.

“I always said I would not be singing”
: Gonzales, “Curtis Mayfield.”

“It's not about dying”
: Peck, Galloway, and Gulotta,
Movin' On Up
.

“I have ideas”
: Burns,
People Never Give Up
, 223.

“Curtis worked so long”
: Van Nguyen, “Back to Living.”

“[I can't sing] in the manner”
: Burns,
People Never Give Up
, 214–215.

“It took all of my know how”
: Ibid., 230.

“My particular thing is how”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 270.

“Fusing elements of hip-hop on this CD”
: Ibid., 286.

“I've been doing this since I was seven”
: Ibid., 287.

“The honor that you bestowed upon [Curtis]”
: “Marv Stuart Hyman on Curtis Mayfield at the Induction Ceremony,” Rock and Roll Hall of Fame official website.

“I don't know anything about death”
: Sharon Mayfield, interview by Atria and Mayfield.

“As I sum it up”
: Werner,
Higher Ground
, 287.

Lasting Impressions

“There's the illusion that progress”
: “Race Relations in Crisis,”
The Open Mind
.

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