If You Are Black, The Only Roads

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.

And Now Each Night, I Count The Stars. And Each Night I Get The Same Number. And When The Stars Won't Come To Be Counted, I Count The Holes They Leave.

God Is Man Idealized.

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.

Hope Is Delicate Suffering.