I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

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.

All art requires is courage and the commitment to eat lots of biscuits. D Ellis / 2016

A genius is a grownup that remained a kid.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Long live jihad and long live Palestine.