Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I try to find creative ways to put ideas out to make the ground fertile for organizers. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
If I want to get my ideas out, I have to be involved in the mechanism that the world is ran by. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture… — Boots Riley Copy Share
What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection… — Boots Riley Copy Share
I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people.… — Boots Riley Copy Share
Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went… — Boots Riley Copy Share
What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of… — Boots Riley Copy Share
What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14… — Boots Riley Copy Share
A lot of organizers tell me that while they are making signs or doing whatever they do, they are listening to the Coup. — Boots Riley Copy Share
When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of… — Boots Riley Copy Share
You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details… — Boots Riley Copy Share
If the only time you bang the drum is when it's time to get someone elected, and you don't get involved in a mass… — Boots Riley Copy Share
