Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

Snowboarding allows you to create your own path, and for me it was awesome because no one was telling me what to do. I could go out on the mountain and try new things and learn for myself.

The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.

Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.

Every failure is an experience builder and a stepping stone towards success.

What you love is longing for you.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities.

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.