“When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then — and it doesn't seem to me now — that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces.”

— Ray Charles

First years at School, p. 25
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)

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