W

“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. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an […]

“What I love about Sade other than her smooth and sultry voice is her willingness to be vulnerable. As a powerful, strong and beautiful woman of color, she showed her delicate, passionate side in a world where most of us are putting on a brave face. I love how effortless her style was and how […]

“In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of ‘freedom’, like a bastard brother of reform.” ― Wyndham Lewis “I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there […]

“Silence is refreshment for the soul.” ― Wynonna Judd “It sounds corny, but I’ve promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.” ― Wynonna Judd “Most of us are imprisoned by something. We’re living in darkness until something flips on the switch.” ― Wynonna Judd […]

“You’ll go see a movie like ‘Matrix 2,’ and the car chase goes on and on and on and on. They had all the money in the world and all the time in the world. It doesn’t make it an any better action sequence.” ― Wyck Godfrey “I find, a lot of the time, kids […]

“At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don’t let people give you that peer pressure.” ― Wyclef Jean “Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.” ― Wyclef Jean “I lived in the projects and the […]