People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .

Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way.

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.

Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

Harvester might have a halo, but dear, sweet Lord, she was no angel in the sack. Awesome.

I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.

Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.