The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.
The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.
A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.
I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can't guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.
The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.
Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.
Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.
William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and the invader, who usually has overwhelming power, loses because they can't fight the political war.
I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.
There's a lot of power in the word 'no,' and a lot of people, like myself, need to know that.
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.