The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.
A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that.
If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.
I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.
Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.