I Think That They [bush Administration] Are

My Formative Years, Until I Was 12, Was All Shaped By Jamaican Culture, By That Economy, By The People In My Family, Who Are Agriculturalists, Who Were Plantation Workers, Who Harvested Those Crops And Took Them Down To The Boats Run By The United Food Company, To Load Those Ships At Night, Hence All The Songs That I Sing That Come From That Environment.

To Really Know What Progress We’re Making For Children, We Have To Know How Many Children We Have To Begin With. The Simple Act Of Counting Is An Expression Of A Country’s Intent To Take Care Of Its People.

When I Was Born, I Was Colored. I Soon Became A Negro. Not Long After That I Was Black. Most Recently I Was African-american. It Seems We're On A Roll Here. But I Am Still First And Foremost In Search Of Freedom.

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.

I'm Very Familiar With Poverty. I Find It Easy To Be With, Whether I'm In America Or In Africa Or In Asia. Wherever I Go And Find The Environment Of Those Who Are Living In Poverty And Resisting Poverty Is A Great In Which I Have Great Comfort.