I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.

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.

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

What will be / the sacred words?

Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.

Hope is delicate suffering.