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- As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process…
- I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men.…
- I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like…
- The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
- Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
- Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
- This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
- We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
- I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture…
- Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.…
- My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study…
- The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong