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“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)