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THE JAZZ SIPPER

greed control your actions you will lose every time. Try to limit ways people
can cut into you, something as simple as a cigarette would be enough for a
con man. The essence of any con man is to get you to stop and listen to their
pitch. The other part is greed.

And angles, he said always connect the angles because your life may
depend on it at some time or another. Never make moves on pure emotions,
be your own thinker and stand on your actions right, wrong, or in differ.

Always be the message you send and observe your surroundings. No matter
what the situation, if you know how to get in them, then know how to get out of
them. Rely on the voice you hear that no one else hears; that’s God talking to
you. And with that smile of his, he said, ‘when God talks to you, forget whatever
I said and follow his advice, because he have the power of knowing,” I have the
power of thinking I know.

Some of Ben strongest advice was stay away from using drugs; Ben told me
it was a weakness. And for any reason if you find yourself incarcerated never
admit to anything, stay strong and develop a program to keep you busy
mentally, physically, and spiritually, no hand contact sports, no auguring.
Because, arguing is a form of negotiation and in there, it’s only actions, no
negotiation. That’s what rules the beast, swift and precise action. Its dog eat
dog, he said only the strong survive. It’s survival of the fittest, he said whoever
had the strongest mind and will, would always live to see another day if it was
God’s will.

Vance thought Ben and his mother would be together forever, but
Ben got heavy into his Black activism, more than he was helping his