Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

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

You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.

A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

In my personal life, my family makes me laugh more than anybody; I think that is the same for everybody. I certainly hope it is.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

It kind of sounds like the noise a goat would make if you punched it in the face.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

I have not changed my position. It is the same exact thing. We can not let crazed, insane businessmen who put their bottom line ahead of the planet - And I'm talking about Rex Tillerson.

The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!