You Can Cage The Singer But Not

I Realized That Most White Americans Knew Very Little About Our History And Our Struggle, And Were Having Difficulty Understanding The Basis For Our Agitation And Our Resistance And Our Complaints. I Also Discovered That While Black Americans Had A Sense Of The Beauty And Tragedy Of The Journey From The Time Of Slavery Until Now, We Were Not Rooted In The Specifics. I Thought One Way To Familiarize People With That History Would Be Through The Voices Of The Great Folk Artists.

I Come From A Sense Of Struggle, A Sense Of Using The Instruments That Were Given To Me To Manipulate The Environment In Which I Found Myself, And Joined Up With Those Who Are Equally As Skillful At Manipulating That Environment, As Was I.

We've Come To This Dark Time In Which The New Gestapo Of Homeland Security Lurks Here, Where Citizens Are Having Their Rights Suspended.

You Can Cage The Singer But Not The Song.

Poverty Continues To Exist. Its Appearance Seems To Be Relentless In Evidencing Itself Not Only To All The Things We Experience Here In America, But Certainly What We See Globally. And I Don't See Anywhere Any Philosophical Analysis That Suggests We Know How To Get Out Of This.