Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art.… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone… — Luis J. Rodríguez Copy Share
I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction,… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
“you dont have solo rights to anything anymore,not even your crazy life” — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
I moved into the garage at my mom's house, she wouldn't let me into the house, and the garage didn't have any running water.… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
“It never stopped, this running. We were constant prey, and the hunters soon became big blurs: the police, the gangs, the junkies, the dudes… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get books. I… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one. — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
The judge gave me a break. He was like: wow, we've never heard of this. So he gave me time served in the county… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
“my task is to make you hear,to make you feel ,and ,above all,to make you see,that is all,and it is everything” — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
We [people] all need each other. Gangs do try to fill that void - but they can't do what healthy, balanced, and coherent families… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had me in… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are putting… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share
