I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.

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.

There is no other continent in the world where time is wasted like it is wasted in Africa.

You can overcome every hurdle with positive attitude.

The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

People have come, surpassed my soul and left.I have become hollow and the hollow space inside, hurts.

Certify border is secure; only then allow guest workers.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.

If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.