I Felt Rich When I Was 20

You See, Africa Makes A Fool Of Our Idea Of Justice. It Makes A Farce Of Our Idea Of Equality. It Mocks Our Pieties. It Doubts Our Concern. It Questions Our Commitment. Because There Is No Way We Can Look At What's Happening In Africa, And If We're Honest, Conclude That It Would Ever Be Allowed To Happen Anywhere Else.

Even Though I'm A Believer, I Still Find It Really Hard To Be Around Other Believers. They Make Me Nervous, They Make Me Twitch. I Sorta Watch My Back.

I'm A Singer, Not A Politician, And I Think You Don't Want The Two To Get Confused. It's Not Ok To Be On Cnn Talking About People Starving And Then Tell The Interviewer That Your New Album Is Coming Out In Six Months.

Actually Oddly Enough, I Think My Work, The Activism, Will Be Forgotten. And I Hope It Will. Because I Hope Those Problems Will Have Gone Away.

I Have Learned To Interface - What I Think Would Be The Contemporary Term - With Various Different Lexicons, And People Speak Very Different Languages. I've Learned To Speak In A Lot Of Tongues, And I Can Live With The Bellicose Language Of Some Fervent, Fire-breathing Christians, Sure.