#hit

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#found #greedy #growing #men #rich

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#america #biggest #black #black and white #block

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#china #got #hit #hit record #know

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#around #band #bricks #came #choir

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#frozen #liquid #music #must #then

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them! ↗

— Van Jones

#believe #black #child #columbine #done

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#black #feel #know #myth #only

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. ↗

— June Jordan

#deprived #dread #every #fears #nation

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#get #head #hit #need #realize

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#everything #give #hands #i #men