Boots Riley

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401 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 May

Boots Riley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And I don't want people to be on automatic.
I want people to be understanding.
It's like seeing the brushstrokes in something.
It doesn't take you out of the painting to see the brushstrokes.
It brings you into it more.
And so I want people to think about, engage with this work in a different way.
And so that goes from
So the grotesque part is something that I think is connected to, you know, what we might, the horrors that we see and atrocities we see happening in our real life.
And how do we get a hold of that?
And to do that in the midst of something that is ultimately optimistic.
Yeah.
I think the art that I make is optimistic.
Yeah.
And to put that in these this context is is something that that makes you think about what's in front of you in a different way.
Like I show the seams and stuff and that has to do with I'm trying to make things that are janky and with this.
Beautiful clutter.
And it's very inspired to me.
It's not good.
Punk is a negative term, too.
No.
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