My Responsibility Is To Truth And Beauty.

The Further Jazz Moves Away From The Stark Blue Continuum And The Collective Realities Of Afro-american And American Life, The More It Moves Into Academic Concert-hall Lifelessness, Which Can Be Replicated By Any Middle Class Showing Off Its Music Lessons.

Thought Is More Important Than Art....to Revere Art And Have No Understanding Of The Process That Forces It Into Existence, Is Finally Not Even To Understand What Art Is.

When I Die, The Consciousness I Carry I Will To Black People. May They Pick Me Apart And Take The Useful Parts, The Sweet Meat Of My Feelings. And Leave The Bitter Bullshit Rotten White Parts Alone.

There Is No Justice In America, But It Is The Fight For Justice That Sustains You

In America, Black Is A Country.