I've written a little bit in Germany.

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.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

It always seems that people who bring nothing to the table take the most from it.

I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.

Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty

My first world title gave me the confidence to go and do bigger and better things.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.