I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it… — 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
With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I want to fight the McCarthyist state that's developing in this country so my kids won't live in a world where people… — 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
There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
We're told, 'If you want to change the world, vote.' And really, if you want to change the world, there's a lot… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street movement, in general, by putting this idea out there that the one percent is leeching off the 99… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
