“Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.”
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.