Although We Had A Lot Of Villainy

When I Was 40 And Looking At 60, It Seemed Like A Thousand Miles Away. But 62 Feels Like A Week And A Half Away From 80. I Must Now Get On With Those Things I Always Talked About Doing But Put Off.

I Delighted In The Music Of Africa, The Earliest Of The Slave Plantation Songs, The Transformation Into Christianity And All That Christianity Brought To The Lives Of The Africans Who Were Forced To Come To America.

As A Matter Of Fact, Compromise Is What Oppression Feeds On.

I'm Called A Folk Singer, And I'm Not Too Sure About That. I Went About My Life Approaching Music Not From The Point Of View Of A Singer, But From The Point Of View Of An Actor. That's How I First Started To Sing.

Not Since The Early Days Of The Civil Rights Movement Has America Been Given An Opportunity As Great As The Opportunity We Have Now. It's One Thing For Us To Avenge Our Pain, Our Anger, And Our Rage By Targeting Bin Laden And A Handful Of Men Who Have Wrought This Villainy. But One Should Be Wise Enough To Ask, What Fueled All This? What Continues To Sustain The Possibility That This Will Not Go Away? I Think The Answer Is Poverty.