Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.