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You See Martin Luther King Is Dead And Huey Newton Is Not. And Malcolm X Is Dead And Bobby Seale Is Not. And Vernon Jordan Was Shot. The Thing That Revolutionaries, Or Even People Who Want To Claim They're Revolutionaries, Often Forget Is That It Doesn't Make No Difference What Kind Of Wardrobe You Wear, And If You Speak Up About Black People Doing Better You Just Risked Your Life.

A Lot Of Folks Are So Busy Trying To Get Their Groceries Together That They Don't Have Time To Do Research. I Have Time. Maybe That's The Main Difference.

All The Dreams You Show Up In Are Not Your Own.

Every Show That Sells Out Is Like A Hero's Welcome For Me.

I Think A Whole Lot Of Stuff Gets By People - I Could Name Half A Dozen Groups That Do Songs That Are Openly Supportive Of Experimentation With Drugs, Nobody Ever Said Anything To Them.