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.

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

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

The future is always here in the past

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.

There is no depth to education without art.

In America, black is a country.