I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, in some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.

Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a point there. I don't think that the words are necessarily nullified. It's just that that context is something you ought to be suspicious of.

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.