Melvin B. Tolson: Anybody know who Willie Lynch was? Anybody? Raise your hand. No one? He was a vicious slave owner in the West Indies. The slave-masters in the colony of Virginia were having trouble controlling their slaves, so they sent for Mr. Lyn...
Henry Lowe: A brilliant young woman I know was asked once to support her argument in favor of social welfare. She named the most powerful source imaginable: the look in a mother's face when she cannot feed her children. Can you look that hungry child...
Any inquiry into politics is an inquiry into faith.
You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Politics is applied anywhere, even in heaven.
Frequent friction when love becomes political.
The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.
Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.
There is nothing political about American literature.
I was considering running for political office.
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.
