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And when there were too many people to arrest, they would wave the train
on
through so that people who had been hoping and saving and praying for the chance to get to freedom had to figure out: How now will we get out?
One was the migration along the East Coast from Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington DC, to Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York and
on
up the East coast.
That had not happened in the three centuries in which African Americans had been
on
that soil at that time.
On
those sugar plantations, and
on
those tobacco fields, and
on
those rice plantations, and
on
those cotton fields were opera singers, jazz musicians, playwrights, novelists, surgeons, attorneys, accountants, professors, journalists.
Starting with Louis Armstrong, who was born in Louisiana and migrated
on
the Illinois Central Railroad to Chicago, where he got the chance to build
on
the talent that was within him all along.
They migrated to southern Illinois, where he would get the chance to build
on
the talents that were within him all along but which could have gone fallow in the cotton country of Arkansas.
One person added to another person, added to another person, multiplied by millions, acting
on
a single decision, were able to change the region that they had been forced to flee.
One of the interesting things, of course, is the combination of that raw hand
on
the instrument and technology, and what he said about listening to our young people.
I'm being told where to play
on
the drum.
Snares on, snares off.
(Drum sounds) (Drum sounds end) And so
on.
However, what I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not
on
the music; everything that there isn't time to learn from a teacher, or to talk about, even, from a teacher.
But in a way, you know, it's the same if I look at you and I see a nice, bright young lady with a pink top
on.
And I said, "Well, I think I do too, but I also hear it through my hands, through my arms, cheekbones, my scalp, my tummy, my chest, my legs and so on."
And so what we would do is that I would put my hands
on
the wall of the music room, and together, we would "listen" to the sounds of the instruments, and really try to connect with those sounds far, far more broadly than simply depending
on
the ear.
And every single entry had to be listened to, experienced, and then, based
on
the musical ability, then that person could either enter or not.
If there were no resonators
on
here, we would have: (Marimba sounds) So he would have a fullness of sound that those of you in the front few rows wouldn't experience, those of you in the back few rows wouldn't experience, either.
Every single one of us, depending
on
where we're sitting, will experience this sound quite, quite differently.
So all of my performances are based
on
entirely what I experience, and not by learning a piece of music, putting
on
someone else's interpretation of it, buying all the CDs possible of that particular piece of music, and so
on
and so forth, because that isn't giving me enough of something that is so raw and so basic, and something that I can fully experience the journey of.
I cannot give you any detail as far as what is actually happening with those halls, but it's just the fact that they are going to a group of people for whom so many years, we've been saying, "Well, how
on
earth can they experience music?
No, I don't like that piece," and so
on.
But nevertheless, it was such an unbelievable experience, because where
on
earth are you going to experience that in a piece of music?
Where
on
earth are you going to experience that in a study book?
It actually got so bad that somebody put our country up for sale
on
eBay.
But I can surely tell you that in my country, much like
on
Wall Street and the city of London and elsewhere, men were at the helm of the game of the financial sector, and that kind of lack of diversity and sameness leads to disastrous problems.
So we decided, a bit fed-up with this world and also with the strong feeling in our stomach that this wasn't sustainable, to found a financial services firm based
on
our values, and we decided to incorporate feminine values into the world of finance.
But in 2007, at the height of the sub-prime and all the complicated financial structures, it was quite opposite to the reckless risk-taking behaviors that we saw
on
the market.
It didn't matter what she was crying about, she could get
on
my knee, she could snot my sleeve up, just cry, cry it out.
Just go on, go
on
in your room.
His father wasn't
on
the set.
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