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.

Hope is delicate suffering.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

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.

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

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