In America, black is a country.

There is no depth to education without art.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

A man is either free or he is not.