"[T]he Negroes invented [Jazz] to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy on the one hand and to excite bestial tendencies on the other."
— Jazz

January 1, 1970

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Sayyid Qutb, as quoted in Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism (2016), by Maajid Nawaz and Tom Bromley, Connecticut: Rowman & Littlefield, p. xxi