Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further … - Gil Scott-Heron

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I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but I want it to mean something.

Gil Scott-Heron

Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode.

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