If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

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

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

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

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.