Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

When we were doing the "Angel Dust" thing we got information from the National Institute of Drug Abuse because we knew that if we went out and said something about angel dust people were going to ask questions about it and we wanted to be sure we had all the information to deal with it when those questions came up. So it's all a question of being as prepared as possible out front, so that if you are going to deal with information it'll be correct. A lot of people won't check it out but some people will.