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I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#around #baby #been #edge #end

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#am #black #created #decided #everything

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#get #go #going #how #i

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today. ↗

— Jack Valenti

#control #dispatched #every #home #parent

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#bypass #doing #even #everything #find

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#box #bring #could #go #got

It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#bums #doing #feel #front #going

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#angeles #been #blackwell #drum #drums

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#consistent #disguised #selfishness #sympathy #virtue

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#conversation #fit #holding #kid #know