The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake art that stands above classes art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Music is more emotional than prose more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in art as in politics patience counts as much as revolution.