But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.