Poetry Is Music, And Nothing But Music.

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.

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.

A Man Is Either Free Or He Is Not. There Cannot Be Any Apprenticeship For Freedom.

The Attempt To Divide Art And Politics Is A Bourgeois Which Says Good Poetry, Art, Cannot Be Political, But Since Everything Is … Political, Even An Artist Or Work That Claims Not To Have Any Politics Is Making A Political Statement By That Act.

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.