I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.

I started composing when I was around 13, and back then, people used to say that I needed to be a composer or a performer, but I can't be good at both of them. I could never understand why anyone would say that. Jellyroll did both, Bessie Smith did both, and so did I.

You forget, living outside of a country, that the actions of the government are not the actions of the people.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.