JAY-Z quote about history from Decoded - We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift: We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.
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We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift: We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.
 JAY-Z, Decoded (2010). copy citation

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Author JAY-Z
Source Decoded
Topic history inspiration street fathers
Date 2010
Language English
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Weblink https://archive.org/stream/DecodedByJayZ/Decoded%20by%20Jay-Z_djvu.txt

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