"When he left that day, it dawned on me: Dave Brubeck was kind to me. Here is a man who stared down racism in the 1950s, and racism blinked. This man is a giant. He is a hero, and a national treasure. And his music? My god, there has never been anything better. And he was kind to me. And that’s when I decided, damnit, if Dave Brubeck can be nice and kind to me, nobody has an excuse to not be kind. I am worthy of basic human decency, and so are all the other people around me."

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