Switching Off Perfection Switched On The Human

What I'm Slowly Realizing Is That I Believe That Most Of Us Felt That We Could Relax A Little Bit After November 2, 2008, Because Of The Progress And The Spirit That It Took To Get Barack Obama In The White House. And What We Didn't Realize, Is That Was Really The Beginning. That Was Really The Beginning Of The Struggle And Not The End Of A Struggle, To Come From Colonial Times Through Slavery, Through The Jim Crowe Laws, Through The Civil Rights Period To The White House As, Like A Point A/point B Journey. Point B Of Course Being The End.

Highlight Reels Are About That One Person. After A Barrage Of Highlight Reels, You Get The Sense That You Can Do It Without A Team. But Music Thrived The Most When Groups Were Involved. People Lose Sight Of That - That Community Makes The World Run.

Just Because The Laws Were Changed Doesn't Mean That The Attitudes Have Changed.

I Think All Of This—the Roots And Djing Included—was Meant To Prepare Me For The Tonight Show.

Resistance Here Doesn't Mean Revolution. It Doesn't Mean Storming The Barricades. Resistance Means Using Art For The Things That It Does Best, Which Is To Create Human Portraits And Communicate Ideas And Forge A Climate Where People Of Different Races Or Classes Are Known To You Because They Make Themselves Known. In The Simplest Terms, Art Humanizes. It Opens The Circuit Of Empathy. And Once That Process Happens, It's That Much Harder To Think Of People As Part Of A Policy Or A Statistic. Art Reverses The Alienation That Can Creep Into Society.