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

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 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.

I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.

We are capable beyond measure. Go all out and be the great person, you are destiny to be.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.

It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.

Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

Heroes? Don't believe in them.