David Ritz (born c. 1942) is an American author, most of whose books are biographies of soul music and R&B legends such as Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Janet Jackson, and Smokey Robinson. On four occasions, his co-authored autobiographies of musicians (for books with B.B. King, The Neville Brothers, and Jerry Wexler) have been awarded the Ralph J. Gleason Award. He is also a novelist (Blue Notes Under a Green Felt Hat and The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn).
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“Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and conscious blasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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