I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.

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.

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

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.

pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself..

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.

What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?

I have two secret weapons -- my legs, my arms and my brain.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.