“Most of the Harlem people I talk to grow quiet when I mention Gross’s name, except to make it clear that they don’t know any­thing, don’t know anyone who knows anything, and wish I wouldn’t pursue the story.”

“There is no more talk of a few rotten apples in the barrel. It is the barrel that is rotten. The only trouble is that we are all still inside it, and the Knapp Commission has not told us how to get out.”

"Like conceptual art and Pop, graffiti questions the context in which art is appreciated. It renews the dream of work for its own sake, the idea of creation as a democratic process — in short, radical humanism"