I have some money in my family. I'm not telling anyone to beg. I'm saying that there's a certain number of folks like me who come from privileged backgrounds, who've been lucky enough to be exposed to people who are building some real shit, and who really have some values and who've struggled. It ain't about begging at all, it's about folks like us who realize we owe. This isn't our money.
Money is a conservative force in any social movement 'cause people are kissing up to the donors.
I'm not making any money off this book personally. So the money is going to a small foundation that me and some friends of mine in New York are starting called the Active Elements Foundation that will fund youth activists that other foundations aren't funding. You know, as fast as I can make the money, I'll give it away. In Bomb the Suburbs you talk about the suburbs being part of a mentality-escape from folks of color, from poor people, from social issues, from freedom. And then in No More Prisons , you're talking literally about suburban sprawl and metropolitics.