This poet is a griot in search of a village.
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
The word griot. . . is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society. . . the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.
I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.