A connection with them and America through jazz that they've never forgotten.
"It captures, to a large extent, the black experience in America. It shows the creativity of African American artists and where we have come from and how we have been able to take that experience of ours and use it for a broader purpose. It gave us inspiration and sustenance during long, dark years, but always was something that was uniquely African American yet it went beyond the African American experience and touched the whole country. It was the African American contribution to the culture of this nation and to this nation."
| A quote from Secretary of State Colin Powell, on what he likes about jazz music, via the U.S. State Department's "Interview on BET JAZZ with Tami Willis-Arasli" (via Scoop)
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