A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain't done yet. / Naw. My song ain't through.

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Life is given for increase

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

Every day is as amazing as we decide it is.

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

Silence is a place of great power and healing.

We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person escapes notice: the world does not know him.