Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
“Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.”
“A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.”