I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15..

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness..

Death to the pigs is my basic statement..

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table..

What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. I….

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk i….

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing..

What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to ….

Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensel….

I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these c….

What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make r….

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on mu….

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relatio….

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives..

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things..

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listenin….

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done..

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that..

People give out compliments because it's polite..

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message..

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think..