For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.

Jesus loves a free black man.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.