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I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

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

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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.

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

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

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The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community. . . Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it. . . It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store. . . that’s the only way art can function naturally.

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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.

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