“The notion of the blue note, the emotional and expressive note, is foundational to Black music traditions. What Black people have done with music is show how you can compositionally challenge the form of European music to make something new, something that exists without boundaries. We can quite literally say the musical expression by Black people is an act of resistance against colonial standards of sound.”

“it might be grim, but i don’t have much desire for black life in this world. the world has shown us who it is and i think it’s high time that we believe it.”