I do think that, yes, one should always be receptive to the fact that there are many different types of audiences, and they are not necessarily in a clean, reductive demographic like they once were.
I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad, and just say, 'This is the part I agree with that you're saying, and these are the parts I don't agree with.'
Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.
You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.
I never plan my speech. Very often the audience triggers me into the mood.
We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
Different occasions require different rhetoric.
