I Learnt Early On That Your Audience

I Try Not To Take People Who Haven't Really Thought Out What They're Doing Too Seriously. I Try Not To Let Them Get In The Way Of What I Feel I Need To Do.

The Way You Get To Know Yourself Is By The Expressions On Other People's Faces, Because That's The Only Thing That You Can See, Unless You Carry A Mirror About.

You See Martin Luther King Is Dead And Huey Newton Is Not. And Malcolm X Is Dead And Bobby Seale Is Not. And Vernon Jordan Was Shot. The Thing That Revolutionaries, Or Even People Who Want To Claim They're Revolutionaries, Often Forget Is That It Doesn't Make No Difference What Kind Of Wardrobe You Wear, And If You Speak Up About Black People Doing Better You Just Risked Your Life.

When We Were Doing The "angel Dust" Thing We Got Information From The National Institute Of Drug Abuse Because We Knew That If We Went Out And Said Something About Angel Dust People Were Going To Ask Questions About It And We Wanted To Be Sure We Had All The Information To Deal With It When Those Questions Came Up. So It's All A Question Of Being As Prepared As Possible Out Front, So That If You Are Going To Deal With Information It'll Be Correct. A Lot Of People Won't Check It Out But Some People Will.

Man Is A Complex Being: He Makes Deserts Bloom - And Lakes Die.