I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.
Everything I do has an underlying political question.
Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win?
It's said that once you win an election, that you win political capital, and that's kind of my intent, is to spend political capital on the Gulf Coast, among other areas.
One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.
Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.
I never intended to become an opposition political leader. Perhaps the government wants to raise me up into one.
Moses (that wise Legislator) in his forbidding the Jews to lend money one to another, and permitting them to lend their money to Strangers; ordained that Law as much to a Political as a Religious intent; knowing that by the latter they should enrich their own Nation, and by the former no publick good could ensue; the consequences being only to impoverish one Jew to make another rich.
Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.
