I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.
The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.
The US intelligence community is deeply allergic to the Freedom of Information Act. It is fair to say that the intelligence community does nearly everything in its power to avoid compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.
I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the name of national security the US government both overtly and covertly aligns itself with the apartheid state and against heroic freedom fighters for racial justice. . . Not only in 1962 but also keeping in mind that Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008, that kind of myopic understanding of national security has devastating consequences.
Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.
I think I've had a fairly meandering career. Because I did start so young, I think that I've always chosen my parts based on what's interesting to me and what I think would be challenging or fun, or someone I've always wanted to work with or a place I've always wanted to work in or a topic.