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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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"There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is."
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"Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate."
"Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood."
"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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"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
"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."
"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
"I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
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