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

I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

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

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.

You never cared enough to be Black

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.