The artist...is the voice of the people.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.