"I'm not an old man. I'm a young man with a lot of experience."

"I think I'm a jazz musician. I don't know what else I am."

"Some white folks don't like me because I won't be a nigger."

"Seems to me that the people who all the time talking about what's wrong with the world, are the same ones who ain't doing nothing to make it right."

"I don't like to be called a jazz musician. I'm a musician."