I Learnt Early On That

If Someone Comes To You And Asks For Help, And You Can Help Them, You're Supposed To Help Them. Why Wouldn't You? You Have Been Put In The Position Somehow To Be Able To Help This Person.

Paul Robeson Once Said That The Artist Has The Responsibility To Either Help Liberate The Community Or Further Oppress It. And I Think That When Eldridge Cleaver Wrote It Down It Was Interpreted As His, But There's A History Of People Saying Things Of That Nature And Meaning It. And What I Do Is In That Tradition, In That Mode.

You Will Not Be Able To Stay Home, Brother./you Will Not Be Able To Plug In, Turn On And Cop Out./you Will Not Be Able To Lose Yourself On Skag And Skip,/skip Out For Beer During Commercials,/because The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

I Learnt Early On That Your Audience Take The Songs In The Way They Want To Rather Than The Way You Might Want Them Too.

The First Revolution Is When You Change Your Mind