My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.