Polo G Quotes

The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

A writer just speaks from his heart, mind and soul. They are the conscience keepers of the society. They are the keepers of the soul of the society.

Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here.

A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

The best cinema is about ethics.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

Ultimately, when I deliver something, a lot of times it will be from a black woman's perspective, but other times it will be just from a satirical, goofy perspective.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage, for it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a nation.

Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor laid the groundwork for us as Indian-Americans. How can we add our story to their groundwork is the question.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.