If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.
From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.
Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
Your violin has only two strings,” I say. “You’re missing the other two.” Yes, he says. He’s well aware. “All I want to do is play music, and the crisis I’m having is right here. This one’s gone,” he says of the missing top string, ...
I finally found him sitting on his balcony. He was leaning back against the wall with his eyes closed. Soft music played, and a cool ocean breeze blew back my hair as I stepped on to the balcony and inhaled the scent of the sea. "May I join you?" I a...
music is the worst of them - roiling and boiling - overly emotionalized on the one hand, overly intellectuallized on the other. Bach and Mozart indeed! Bach inevitably makes me think of fish in a barrel! round and round and round they go and nothing ...
�Communication and a clear mutual understanding between two or more people builds the best route to success in any venture. I don’t expect… * immediate action, * instant perfection, * total comprehension * complete implementation, or * flawless...
Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were...
My first engagement with any art was music.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Music is poetry in motion.
