Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position.
If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.
Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.
It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.
The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined. . . and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.
[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He was, at least, one of the three most important spokesmen of the movement and of the black community.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
