It is dangerous to live in a secure world.

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

Becky Renee Apple - can you believe her mom named her that and then had all of her sweaters monogramed with 'BRA'?

The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.

Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.

Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that.

I'm really very visually attracted to Wonder Woman. She just looks great on the page.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.