"At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should have some sort of social value. Art is the polar opposite of the current communication saturation--the elimination of the art of storytelling, the lack of passing traditions on from generation to generation, when two men would just sit down and talk. A return to art that has some meaning, some deeper political value, might be part of the answer."--Tariq 'Black Thought' Trotter, quoted in
Rolling Stone.