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

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

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

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.