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.

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

In America, black is a country.

The future is always here in the past

A man is either free or he is not.

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.