"... He was a great man, a great man! He wanted to be a real leader. He wanted to free the people from poverty and ignorance, and superstition, just like the heroine of his ragtime opera, Treemonisha. That's why he was so ambitious; that's why he tackled major projects. In fact, that's why he was so far ahead of his time... He would often say that he'd never be appreciated until after he was dead."
-Lottie Stokes Joplin
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