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"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
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"Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then."
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"Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans."
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"When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic."
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"One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife."
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"I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African."
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"The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival."
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"Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities."
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"There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago."
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"Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place."
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"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
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"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
Music
"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
Music
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
Singing
"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
Mother
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
African
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
Musicians
"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
Church
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
Thought
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
Music
"There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have."
Memory
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