If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

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.

It is impossible to love someone you do not respect, but there can be mutual attraction without mutual respect.

Always remember that your future is determined by what you do today, not tomorrow.

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

Above all, try something

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually

I get happy very easily and very often.

Flaws are awesome - so, flawsome! I love making up a word.