I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it is corroding anything. Folks have the feeling that oftentimes if you don't talk about something it will go away.

You never cared enough to be Black

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

We understand what the difference is between what we understand and what the community understands about what we're doing because they have supported us long enough for me to stay out here, while other people who are doing other things have not. A lot of people have trouble pinning down what it is we do and how. But we don't have any trouble with that. As long as that's their problem, it's their problem.