Quotes from Boots Riley

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like people have thought about what they're saying.