“Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.”

As quoted in More Than A Fakebook : The Music Of Charles Mingus (1991) by Andrew Homzy

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American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader 1922–1979

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