Viola Plummer: Yes, and there's a brother we worked with named Ron Washington — who passed on Saturday — Who duplicated this at Cecil's [West Orange, NJ]... And the musicians that played here would play there Friday and play here Saturday. When he came here he was like I've gotta do this...' And he did it Friday nights at Cecil's.

I think Sista's Place is wonderful, it has had the benefit of the history of The East; it has had the benefit of the coming together of jazz and poetry, and history... I think what Sista's Place enabled us to do — the comrades that I worked with it enabled us to meet people that they only read about. We do this thing for Trane [John Coltrane] and people are so engrossed with the genius, and we did this thing for Miles [Davis], and now my grandchildren can now talk to me about some real music, Nobody gets paid here... We do it for the music; if we could just keep pushing this kind of network, it would be our path towards  freedom.