A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I have time. Maybe that's the main difference.

Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home

A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I have time. Maybe that's the main difference.

The revolution will not be televised.

You never cared enough to be Black

Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.