The future is always here in the past

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

Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to, We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

The future of Cuba is one earned by a country that has resisted for over 50 years against the most powerful empire on Earth. The resilience of its people made this triumph materialize.

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

I wanna go in the studio and just go back to the same amps and stuff I'm so comfortable with the sound of. Which I think is important to stay original.

The stars in the sky will hang there till You tell them to.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'