Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

