Boots Riley

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the…

— Boots Riley

My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating…

— Boots Riley

I have a problem with superheroes in general because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law.…

— Boots Riley

The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.

— Boots Riley

I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop…

— Boots Riley

If I want to get my ideas out, I have to be involved in the mechanism that the world is ran by.

— Boots Riley

The United States is going to keep on with its imperialist ways.

— Boots Riley

The crux of our power isn't only in our voice. It is in our economic function in society.

— Boots Riley

The album 'Party Music' is a beautiful album, and people need to hear it.

— Boots Riley

I don't need to be validated by academia, because that presupposes that academia is a pure endeavor and not guided by market…

— Boots Riley

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

— Boots Riley

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

— Boots Riley

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)"…

— Boots Riley

I'm not trying to make a speech on CD because who wants to buy that?

— Boots Riley

I just make music based on what I believe.

— Boots Riley

I'd been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your…

— Boots Riley

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and…

— Boots Riley

Either I'm really into the organizing, or I'm really into the music. As I've been going, I've been able to figure out…

— Boots Riley

A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it's just because…

— Boots Riley

I used to get worried about writing a love song, because everyone else is doing them, and there are already enough of…

— Boots Riley

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

— Boots Riley

There's this zeitgeist happening, and people are more open to 'Sorry to Bother You' being a hit with 'Get Out' being out…

— Boots Riley

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

'Redistributing the wealth' - that phrase gets used so much that you almost get numb to it.

— Boots Riley

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

— Boots Riley