Categories Quote by Anthony Braxton Download Open image “I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.” — Anthony Braxton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Categories Gone Jazz Jazz music Music
I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified… — Fredi Washington Copy Share Image
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that. — Robert Griffin III Copy Share
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either.… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for.… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given,… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity. — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me. — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home. — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time… — Martin A. Siegel Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand. — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image