Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.
I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.
Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had to deal with anything as remotely degrading as stop and frisk. So he has no point of reference.
We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.