On What She Did After The Ball:
“For the two days after the ball, I decided to take the weekend, turn my phone off, journal and just be quiet because it was so much noise. No one can hear if anyone is shouting. I went to bed when I got home, woke up at three o’clock in the morning, and all of a sudden all these words were just in my head.
I spent maybe five or six hours writing down every word in my head. I didn’t get afraid of what I was saying or of offending anybody. I decided that if I was as affected by what was going on in politics as I was that it was my right to write about it. This past Sunday, I went into the studio and recorded five poems and a song. But it came to me out of nowhere and I had to record it.”
On “Representing Black Voices” At The Ball:
“First of all, when Barack Obama got into office and the Republican elected officials walked out on him in so many ways, that wasn’t smart because now, their America isn’t represented. When we received our fate recently and our Democrats walked out at the Inauguration, it was kind of the same thing and my stomach dropped, not because I don’t understand, but now it’s like, well if you’re not equipped to handle this situation then who is? I don’t have any sort of political degree or agenda.
I named the album No Political Genius for that reason, but I think that the most important thing for us to do now is talk to each other and to people who we may have never spoken to and begin to understand each other’s struggle to see what we do have in common so that we can see where we can unite and what we can fight together.”
“And I don’t know if people know the facts. I know I’m just a singer and to some people that’s all I’ll ever be, but I’ve got to do something. It will break my heart if we decide to divide now. I thought I’d said enough on “Let Freedom Reign,” I thought that I had said enough by going to Afghanistan and going to colleges and mentoring young people. I thought I had said enough that somebody would know that Chrisette’s not going there to dance at a ball but to make a statement.”
On No Political Genius Album & Plans to be More Politically Involved:
“With No Political Genius and with the production I’m about to create for television with No Political Genius, I’m taking on the mission of speaking to congressmen and women, elected officials all around the country and then speaking to people just like me who don’t understand what they’re talking about, bring them our questions and get some answers on how we can move forward. And I think that begins with conversation. With No Political Genius, that is my goal — just to begin the conversation. Everyone is having some passionate response to what’s happening even if we don’t understand. Yeah, we laugh about the comb over but it’s not funny.”
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