Our Society Has Gotten To The Point

Above All Else, [benny Goodman] Was A Great Player, One Of The Greatest American Music Has Produced. He Brought His Absolute Talent And His Invincible Love Of Music To The Fore Every Time He Played. There Are Many Other Things Connected To Society And Ethnicity That Are Often Mentioned In A Discussion Of Benny Goodman But All Of Them Are Connected To His Overwhelming Affection For The Art Of The Music And The Fairness It Should Be Allowed To Express.

I Also Wanted To Do Something That I Hadn't Really Seen In Almost Any Black Novels, Which Was A Complex Love Story In Which Both People Were Extremely Intelligent And Talented And Understood A Lot Of Things And Were Still At Odds Getting It Together.

As You Know From Reading Many Of These Negro Writers, We Don't Deal Too Much With The Discussion Of Democracy And What It Means And How Improvisation Fits In All That.

Getting To The Pint Where The Other Is Not The Enemy Is A Big Leap.

Our Job As Writers And Thinkers In The Time Is How To Bring About The Occasions That Let People Have That First-person Experience - Or The Metaphoric Experience That Allows Them To See Human Continuity As Opposed To Total Threat, Total Willingness To Do Violence.