My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

I'm doing all these interviews with the British press, the Italian press, and others. They all want to talk about this stuff. I don't have a stance; I don't have a go-to thing to say about any of this.

I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

I just rode cross-country and the thing I noticed is just how afraid everyone is, and how nervous and scared and angry people are. From my point of view, I don't think it's all necessarily justified, but I think that's easy for me to say.

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.