If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.