Each and every one of you has the power, the will, and the capacity to make a difference in the world you live in.
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.
If I’ve impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with me having, then I would say that I have been successful.
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future – for the children and for the country.
You can cage the singer but not the song.
I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.
I don’t find inspiration on Wall Street. I don’t find that in Beverly Hills. I don’t find that in places where opportunity resides unbridled, and I think the real creative energy and the real juice is in where people are caught, in the economic abyss.
Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?
We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees.
When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.
We’ve come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.
In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the admission is filled with inspired moments to overcome oppression.
The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but 80% of the people in prison are black, mostly for soft crimes.
This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?
I’ve always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I’ve always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.