I Was A Piano Player

You Will Not Be Able To Stay Home, Brother./you Will Not Be Able To Plug In, Turn On And Cop Out./you Will Not Be Able To Lose Yourself On Skag And Skip,/skip Out For Beer During Commercials,/because The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

I Don't See Any Independent Position That I'm In; It's Rather Inter-dependent.

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.

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.

A Good Poet Feels What His Community Feels. Like If You Stub Your Toe, The Rest Of Your Body Hurts.