Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.