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“In Ellington, we hear the story of the Negro, maybe the most American of Americans.”
― Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
― Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
“If you got the grits, serve 'em!”
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“We cannot allow our public schools to remain in such bad shape and then wonder why we are having so many social problems.”
― The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race
― The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race
“I don’t write things to shock people, necessarily, but sometimes, when making an argument…
Let me put it this way: Some people go out into a field of wheat and they’ll pick something- just one thing that they like. However, other people will drive a thresher through there.
Sometimes, if I have a choice, I’ll just drive the thresher through.”
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Let me put it this way: Some people go out into a field of wheat and they’ll pick something- just one thing that they like. However, other people will drive a thresher through there.
Sometimes, if I have a choice, I’ll just drive the thresher through.”
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“It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism that pretends there is a war going on, and that the victims are the result of a conflict that somebody else started.
"[Caligula and DeSade] were expressing through the license of...power their outrage and boredom, and apparently meaningless lives. That these attitudes have filtered down to the lower classes is what is new.”
― Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
"[Caligula and DeSade] were expressing through the license of...power their outrage and boredom, and apparently meaningless lives. That these attitudes have filtered down to the lower classes is what is new.”
― Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
“I don’t write things to shock people, necessarily, but sometimes, when making an argument…
Let me put it this way: some people go out into a field of wheat and they’ll pick something– just one thing that they like. However, other people will drive a thresher through there.
Sometimes, if I have a choice, I’ll just drive the thresher through.
Sometimes I think that’s what’s called for...”
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Let me put it this way: some people go out into a field of wheat and they’ll pick something– just one thing that they like. However, other people will drive a thresher through there.
Sometimes, if I have a choice, I’ll just drive the thresher through.
Sometimes I think that’s what’s called for...”
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“At that time, Charlie Parker was trying to work up on something,” recalled his friend Clarence Davis, “but he didn’t know what he was doing. He was fishing, but nothing was biting.”
― Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
― Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
“I am still fascinated by all the different ways [Charles Mingus] and Dannie Richmond came up with to play time. I had never heard before (and have rarely heard since) a bassist and a drummer who could so dramatically affect the direction and intensity of the music.”
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