Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that.

It’s a poem, of our love, that doesn’t rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.

Never mistake motion for action.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

In all situations where bad design decisions were made, people lacked some information that would have helped them make the right decision.

Yuki: "Is your brain directly wired to perversion?