I think it's important to get a sense of ... where the society came from. And that helps to look forward to the next 50 years.

I want my family to see there is strength in numbers, and you must stand up for your rights.

Al talks to us every day. He has our backs.

Society cannot be insane, only the individual can. Because sanity is a label dictated by society's ruling class.

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.