One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me that's the beauty of the music.

I find in being black a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

I do not know which to prefer The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes The blackbird whistling Or just after.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues ' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Black literature is taught as sociology as tolerance not as a serious rigorous art form.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks the Hispanics whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

When I look into the crowd I see young and old black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

In America Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

As a young black boy it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions but where are ours?

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

We were alone. Where I could not say hardly imagine. All was black and such a dense black that after some minutes my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.