The Fire Next Time (Intro)

[Intro: Billy Woods]
Crime became real, for example - for the first time - not as a possibility but as the possibility. One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never by working acquire that many pennies, and besides, the social treatment proved that one needed, in order to be free, something more than a bank account. One needed a handle, a lever, a means of inspiring fear