Recently, I did a show at the Hollywood Bowl, and as I drove home that night, I couldn’t help but think about what Willie Jones Jr had said to me all those years earlier: “Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re Black and you’re a female and you can’t do it. You can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you work hard… As long as you are better than everybody else, you’ll get what you deserve… You are Black; you are female… That means that you are going to have to work harder than everybody else. But if you work harder you are undeniable. They can’t deny you. They going to tell you that you
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