All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.

My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be measured in terms of its political effect. It's the very spiritual uplift of the nation. It's the very tenor and tone, morally speaking, of what this country is about. And so the unleashing of these fierce and ferocious beliefs have a potential impact that is quite deleterious, quite negative, quite destructive. And I think we have to say something.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.

When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.