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I Am Charles Mingus, Half Black Man, Not Even White Enough To Pass For Nothing But Black. I Am Charles Mingus, A Famed Jazzman, But Not Famed Enough To Make A Living In This Society.

Since The White Man Says He Came From The Evolution Of Animals, Well, Maybe The Black Man Didn't. The White Man Has Made So Many Errors In The Handling Of People That Maybe He Did Come From A Gorilla Or A Fish And Crawl Up On The Sand And Then Into The Trees. Of Course, Evolution Doesn't Take God Into Consideration. I Don't Think People Learned To Do All The Things They Do Through Evolution.

I, Myself, Came To Enjoy The Players Who Didn't Only Just Swing But Who Invented New Rhythmic Patterns, Along With New Melodic Concepts. And Those People Are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie And Charles Parker, Who Is The Greatest Genius Of All To Me Because He Changed The Whole Era Around.

Creativity Is More Than Just Being Different. Anybody Can Plan Weird; That's Easy. What's Hard Is To Be As Simple As Bach. Making The Simple, Awesomely Simple, That's Creativity.

I Admire Anyone Who Can Come Up With Something Original. But Not Originality Alone, Because There Can Be Originality In Stupidity, With No Musical Description Of Any Emotion Or Any Beauty The Man Has Seen, Or Any Kind Of Life He Has Lived.