I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

I lived for music since I could think.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Storm? Shine your light and make a rainbow.

Im here and he’s not. That I’m alive and he’s…

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

I write poems to figure things out