Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.

The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we had an obligation to do what we could to make real the Constitution of the United States of America.