The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What's really good is African drum music.
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.
I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.