People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.

Unfortunately, as inspiring as people find Barack Obama, change can be interpreted in so many different ways. I think he might do a great deal of good things for social programs here in America and as well, as much as people want to characterize anybody who's a leader and try and sell that, and market it and characterize them in a good way or a bad way, I think it's very telling about the system that we have when we come to the realization that the war is not going to end.

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40 hit... at some point, unless they're a complete fabrication of the industry with no identity of their own and a carbon copy clone of someone else, they in themselves started out being underground.

I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.