If human beings gave Nature more respect, they would understand the meaning of peace. --- Hugh Masekela
The use of color in my paintings is of paramount importance to me. Through color I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man's inhumanity to man.
--- Alma Thomas
Your world is as big as you make it. --- Georgia Douglas Johnson
I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different leaves and they all look beautiful. But at the end of the season, they fold back up and it's still that tree trunk. --- Earl "Fatha" Hines - Interview [1976]
Because of its rhythmic nature, because it helps keep us in rhythm, the drum, next to the human voice, is our most important, most sacred instrument. --- Babatunde Olatunji
Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of one's own voice, is also the goal of any writer. --- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. --- James Baldwin
Christmas Music and Vee W. Garcia's Fiction
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