For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

Vulnerability is power.

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.