When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.