A man is either free or he is not.

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 see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

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

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

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

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

In America, black is a country.

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

There is no depth to education without art.

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 understand what art is.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

Do one thing but do it well

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.

Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

We could do it, you know.

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.