It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

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.

If love is a flower of non-judgmental actions, then kindness is the fragrance of those flowers.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

You are not a human being living your life, but you are a spiritual being longing for life.

I'm fine, " Kate said. "In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better.""Bad deduction, " Jessie said. "If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now.

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness.

I expect a cigar.....not lit, hopefully

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.