Live Now For The Promise

Twitter Freaks Me Out. You Have Followers? It Feels So Obsessive And Proprietary.

Good Art Provides People With A Vocabulary About Things They Can't Articulate.

I'm An Independent Thinker. And I'm Not The Poster Child For Any Movement. I'm Trying To Support Whatever's Right No Matter Where It Is.

In The Early '90s, When I Really Started To Find My Voice, I Was Reading A Lot Of Books, And I Was Moved By The Writers, Like Chinua Achebe, And I Wanted To Be Able To Write Rhymes That Were As Potent As What I Was Reading.

I Don't Mind Being Black. I'm Black Out Loud. It's More Than The People That They Are, It's The Condition That They Represent.