The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people. (Berry Gordy)

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

Berry Gordy

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