The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

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

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

A man is either free or he is not.