There is no depth to education without art.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

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.

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

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