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

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

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.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!

That took balls.""Please, " I said with a snort, "that took ovaries. Of which I have two.

People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it

...I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that you never ever say jump.

I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.