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"I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American."
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"I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."
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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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"I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion."
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"Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans."
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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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"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."
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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 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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"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 played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great."
Play
"It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band."
Sense
"The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it."
First
"Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own."
Music
"I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely."
Deep
"I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to."
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"People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set."
People
"I started playing harp about fourteen years ago."
Years
"I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp."
People
"I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs."
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