Fascism Is Fascism. Terrorism Is Terrorism. Oppression

I Not Only Think That They (u.s. Leaders) Are Misguided, But I Think They Know Exactly What They Are Doing And I Think That They Are Men Who Are Possessed Of Evil.

I Would Hope With All My Heart, That Jay Z Not Take Personally What Was Said... I Would Like To Take This Opportunity To Say To Jay Z And Beyonce: I’m Wide Open, My Heart Is Filled With Nothing But Hope And The Promise That We Can Sit And Have A One-on-one To Understand Each Other.

We Have The Opportunity Now To Look At The Two Billion People In The World Who Suffer From The Most Abject Poverty, Hunger, Disease, And Devastation. Add To That Another Two Billion People Who Are Just Plain Poor. If You Look Into The World Of Those Caught In Economic Oppression, Illiteracy, Disease, And Sexism, Then You'll Understand More Clearly What We Have To Do.

Each Time We Arrive At A New Level In Extricating Ourselves From Economic, Social, Spiritual Domination, We Have A Moment When We Dance In The World Of These New Experiences, Only To Find That The Music Soon Stops, The Dance Ends, And We're Struggling Once Again To Save Ourselves From Being Thrown Back Into Those Conditions.

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.