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There's A Lot Of Injustice In The World And It's What I Sing About In My Music And What I Try To Confront In My Life As An Activist.

My Take Is That There's Two Ways To Approach History. You Sit In Your Armchair And You Watch It On The News And You Return To Your Playstation. Or You Get Out In The Streets And You Make It. Like, When Those Supreme Court Justices, You Know, Legalize Desegregation, It Wasn't Due To Their Infinite Wisdom. It's Because People Whose Names You Do Not Read About In History Books, People Whose Faces You Will Never See, Were The Ones Who Struggled And Sacrificed, Sometimes Gave Their Lives, To Make This Country A More Equal One. When, It's Like Those People Don't Make History, It's Us.

I Didn't Abandon My Studies. Because I Was, Through No - Clarify This. Through No Particular Genius Of My Own, I Was The First Person From Libertyville Public High School To Attend Harvard, Not Because I Was Smarter Than Anyone Or Better Than Anyone, But No One Had Ever Applied Before. It Was Like University Of Illinois, A Fine Institution, Was The Sort Of The Upper Echelon Of Places Where Kids Went From That School. And So I Felt Sort Of A Duty To Myself And My Peers To Continue With Those Studies, And To Continue To, Intellectually Arm Myself For My Coming Struggles.

There's A Unique Component Of Music That Is Different From, The Written Pamphlet Or A Speech. There's Something, When You Get The Right Combination Of Rhythm, Melody And The Right Lyrical Couplet, That Feels Like Truth In The Reptilian Brain. There's Something Hardwired In Our D.n.a.. And When You Get A Large Group Of People Singing Together In Solidarity, It's Something That, In My Experience, And I've Played Countless Demonstrations And Protests Through The Years, It's Something That Can Really Help A Struggle.

I Didn't Grow Up With My Kenyan Family. I Grew Up In A Small, Conservative Suburb Of Chicago.