We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

