I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

When I say "our," I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black person, just like a great achievement by an Anglo American is less important.

The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.