All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.