- We have to play a benefit tonight for the B'nai Brith and the NAACP. It's sponsored by the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan, the Catholic Youth Organization and the YMCA and it's being held in the Greyhound Bus Station at Jackson, Mississippi. (humorous and sarcastic statement made in the early 1960s during C.O.R.E.'s attempts to desegregate interstate travel)
- "Kush" is a number we wrote on our recent trip to Africa, where we were busy making apologies for the [U.S.] State Department. (humorous and sarcastic statement about U.S. policy regarding Africa during the peak of the African Independence Movement, the early 1960s)
- [on Charlie Parker]: He was the other half of my heartbeat.
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