My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

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.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.

I don´t want to be somebody´s crush, if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It’s the indifference I don’t know how to process.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

You're worth something because God says you're worth something-not because of what people think or say about you.

How you live your life can affect your mental state.

I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.