While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.