There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

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

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

Man made God in his own image.

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.

Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.