Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

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

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

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.

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.