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

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

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.

This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.