Paul Robeson Once Said That The Artist

Paul Robeson Once Said That The Artist Has The Responsibility To Either Help Liberate The Community Or Further Oppress It. And I Think That When Eldridge Cleaver Wrote It Down It Was Interpreted As His, But There's A History Of People Saying Things Of That Nature And Meaning It. And What I Do Is In That Tradition, In That Mode.

Our Accomplishments Show What Kind Of People We Are.

I Find It Not Just Strange But Almost Ridiculous That People Could Take A Song Like The One I Was Doing And Interpret It Is Corroding Anything. Folks Have The Feeling That Oftentimes If You Don't Talk About Something It Will Go Away.

I Learnt Early On That Your Audience Take The Songs In The Way They Want To Rather Than The Way You Might Want Them Too.

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.