When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

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

In America, black is a country.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

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

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