I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was...
Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before...
When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a...
My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You...
We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American...
Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make...
There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for...
I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist...
I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how...
A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but...
People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand...
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage...
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the...
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so...
I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.
People send me fanmail in the post, and I keep every letter, and I always say...
I don't like standing and talking in front of lots of people.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical...
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do,...
Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock,...
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band....
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same...
All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in...
I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought,...
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of...
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that...
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the...
I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you...
I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I...
