I'm still far from done with my collage of portraits on my forearm. Arthur Ashe and Michael Jordan have been on there for a while now and I've now added the man who was even Steve McQueen's style icon... Miles Davis.
Miles Davis has been a part of my life for as far back as I can remember... the old man put me on early, gave me the history on the man and the rest is history.
Being an indirect social activist was never Miles' game plan but because he didn't take any shit generally, he got into many a racial scuffle... walking away from shows and never succumbing to racial onslaughts... Miles was Miles.
His ultimate curse, like majority of that generation was his addiction to the needle... but the man lived. The music lives, the style lives, the mindset lives... the cool lives.
Miles is now another one of my wingmen.
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