Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
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.
Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you