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.
Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
A man is either free or he is not.
You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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.