I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.