There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.

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.

People fear not because they are powerless, but because they ignore their inner power

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

Be true to your heart, and if you're passionate about your dream, work towards it but don't allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what's actually unfolding from happening.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

Many dogs will give a greeting grin much like a human smile.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.