For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to war in particular. But it's easy to deodorize Martin King, to sanitize or sterilize him. And I simply want to reveal his radical love and his radical analysis as what they really were.

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.

Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.