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Listen to the late Isaac Hayes covering 'Walk on By' by Burt Bacharach or Mayfield singing The Carpenters' vanilla-seeming 'We've Only Just Begun,' and you realize soul's insistence on transformation: Mayfield in particular makes the song not just about love but the start of revolution.

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I feel music is another kind of literature.

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Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

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Is there a bad song on 'Sign O' The Times?' There isn't.

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I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist.

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Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama.

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Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

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I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

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The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.

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In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we sometimes forget that.

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