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I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body. ”
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ”
You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding. ”
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. ”
This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being. ”
The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being. ”
I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture. ”
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. ”
Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and the fight to have equality and things be better. ”
I'm known for taking a long time getting music out, partially, my schedule is bananas, I'm only human, and then on top of that, I'm a one-man-producer. ”