Action Quote by Boots Riley

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

— Boots Riley

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

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.

— Boots Riley

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

I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people.…

— Boots Riley

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

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

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

I think most people would love for us to be a socialist society.

— Boots Riley

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

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

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