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

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

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.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

God is man idealized.