"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter."

-- Abbey Lincoln

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“It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.”

Source : "Schilder Bram van Velde in Dordrecht", by Paul Groot, newspaper "NRC Handelsblad", 1979.
“College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.”
“My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.”
“I looked for perfection, and I found something better.”
“The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.”

Source : ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”
“This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?”
“Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.”

Source : "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.
“A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.”

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