“When you take the UNCF [United Negro College Fund] model that, what a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.”
About This Quote
Speech to the United Negro College Fund (9 May 1989), mangling the Fund's slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
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