Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

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

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.

A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions.

I miss you something awful sometimes

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.

Life: I'll never understand it.

Am I not a man and brother?

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.