[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if … - Mahershala Ali

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What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.

Mahershala Ali

[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic. If you look at Baltimore or D. C. , Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.

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