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Desmond Tutu says that Ubuntu is a way saying that, "My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours."  It is the realization that, "A person is a person through other persons.  It is not, "I think therefore I am."  It says rather:  "I am human becasue I belong.  I participate, I share."

Ubuntu is a way of doing community among some tribes in South Africa.  When they greet each other they do not say, "Hello" or "How are you?" rather they say Sawu bona–"I see you."  When someone greets you in this manner then you reply, Sikhona–"I am here." Peter Senge writes, "the order of the exchange…

"Yet there is more to jazz than music, and it is there, paradoxically, that its influence is profound."  John F. Szwed   "If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue."  Pat Methany
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