According to blues legend Bessie Smith’s son, when a car dealer snidely told her there was ‘no way a negro woman could afford a Cadillac’, she went to her bank, withdrew enough money to buy a house, threw it in the salesman’s face, told him to ‘f___ himself’ and drove away in the car.

“It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.” – Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker

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