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"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."
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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"He who knows how to be poor knows everything."
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"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."
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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
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"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread."
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"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
First
"Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'"
People
"I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient."
Food
"I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it."
Today
"I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles."
Time
"I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have."
Music
"I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores."
People
"It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression."
Expression
"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information."
Information
"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."
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