Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)