We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.

The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to a struggle for justice. And most importantly, for me, it's tied to a recognition that I am a cracked vessel.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings. And that is a deep moral and spiritual issue, which can of course be backed up by Civil Rights Commissions which enforce the laws against any form of discrimination.