In Poor Environment, I Find Great Inspiration.

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.

Our Foreign Policy Has Made A Wreck Of This Planet. I'm Always In Africa... And When I Go To These Places I See American Policy Written On The Walls Of Oppression Everywhere.

I'm Called A Folk Singer, And I'm Not Too Sure About That. I Went About My Life Approaching Music Not From The Point Of View Of A Singer, But From The Point Of View Of An Actor. That's How I First Started To Sing.

I Grew Up In A School System . . . Where Nobody Understood The Meaning Of Learning Disorder. In The West Indies, I Was Constantly Being Physically Abused Because The Whipping Of Students Was Permitted.

I Think America Offers A Dream That Cannot Be Fulfilled As Easily Anywhere Else In The World As It Could Be Fulfilled Here. Although Oppression Was Common To All Of Us, Those Styles Of Oppression Gave Us The Opportunity To See The World In Dimensions We Didn't Quite See Growing Up In Any One Place.