Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

I don't buy idea of second chance.With hope we make a lot of chances.

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.

Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

You don't live forever, at least in this life.

The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

The obstacle is the path.