(James Baldwin & Marlon Brando)

“It is a pity that we won’t, probably, ever have the time to attempt to define once more the relationship of the odd and disreputable artist to the odd and disreputable revolutionary; for the revolutionary, howerver odd, is rarely disreputable in the same way that an artist can be.  These two seem doomed to stand forever at an odd and rather uncomfortable angle to each other, and they both stand at a sharp and not always comfortable angle to the people they both, in their different fashions, hope to serve….Ultimately, the artist and the revoultionary function as they function, and pay whatever dues they must pay behind it because they are both possessed by a vision, and they do not so much follow this viosion as find themselves driven by it.  Otherwise, they could never edure, much less embrace, the lives they are compelled to lead.  And I think we need each other, and have much to learn from each other, and, more than ever, now.”

-No Name In The Street