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

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

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

For Black people, we're one of the only groups of people that for some reason to express love of yourself, in some ways, is misconstrued as a dislike for someone else.

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

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

Ethics are more important than laws.