“There's a rich culture in Baltimore, if you pay attention and you look into the history of things that are not spoken of in everyday society.  In Baltimore you will uncover some great things as far as historically—if we talk about spirituality, if we talking about slavery, if we're talking about art, music; there's a lot things in Baltimore to talk about . . . In Baltimore we are a mixture of a lot of expressions.  So we’re like a gumbo city: we take a lot from everywhere else and make it our own.”