Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.

Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

There's no law on the internet. There's no voice of reason. It's every man for himself!

The results have no relation to reality. We won't give legitimacy to something that is illegitimate.

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"

I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I'm not going anywhere, and I won't be silenced.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

I personally love working out, but I always try to switch it up. I do a few different things, like SoulCycle, SLT for Pilates, yoga.

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!