And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

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.

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

Back home the black women are all beautiful

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured