I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

Love is more just than justice.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.