Bin Laden Didn't Come From

Poverty Continues To Exist. Its Appearance Seems To Be Relentless In Evidencing Itself Not Only To All The Things We Experience Here In America, But Certainly What We See Globally. And I Don't See Anywhere Any Philosophical Analysis That Suggests We Know How To Get Out Of This.

I Realized That Most White Americans Knew Very Little About Our History And Our Struggle, And Were Having Difficulty Understanding The Basis For Our Agitation And Our Resistance And Our Complaints. I Also Discovered That While Black Americans Had A Sense Of The Beauty And Tragedy Of The Journey From The Time Of Slavery Until Now, We Were Not Rooted In The Specifics. I Thought One Way To Familiarize People With That History Would Be Through The Voices Of The Great Folk Artists.

The Catholic Church Had Strict Racial Attitudes And Intolerance For Anybody Who Was Not Catholic. When I Look At A Lot Of Black Ministers And What Went On In The Black Church, I Was More Caught Up With Those Who Were In Cadillacs And Shiny Suits Than I Was With Those Who Were Kingian In Their Style.

Many Who Have Nothing Opposed To The Few Who Have Everything, And As Long As These Disparities Remain, As Long As These Distances Remain Between People And Forces, I Think We'll Be In A Perpetual State Of Upheaval.

Artists Are The Gatekeepers Of Truth. We Are Civilization’s Anchor. We Are The Compass For Humanity’s Conscience.