The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.

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.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

In America, black is a country.

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

There is no depth to education without art.

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.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

Don't worry, be happy! Just like the song. So simple yet so true!

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

I like the film camera better because the film is still one hundred times better than any digital image at the moment. So, there are certain movies that you can't really do digitally.

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.