The future is always here in the past.

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject..

A man is either free or he is not..

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured.

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills.

There is no depth to education without art..

My responsibility is to truth and beauty..

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world..

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human..

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities..

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I s….

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slaver….

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes..

In America, black is a country..

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom..

The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a….

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women..

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to un….

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man….

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win..

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog..