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I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

One's self-worth comes from how one chooses to navigate that space.

He was less like a tree of knowledge and more like a bush of opinions." From the book "The Sellout

The formulaic repetitiveness of filing and stuffing envelopes appeals to me in some fundamental life-affirming way.

Because I knew that racist Negro Archetypes, like Bebe's Kids, don't die. They multiply.

They say a cigarette takes three minutes off your life, but good hashish makes dying seem so far away.

The wretched of the Earth, he calls us. People too poor to afford cable and too stupid to know that they aren't missing anything.

Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it's fear.

Foy was no Tree of Knowledge, at most he was a Bush of Opinion

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

For those looking to find the thing that you've lost, the decision of where to place your handbill is one of the toughest you'll ever make in life.

Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war.

Like Nazis at a Ku Klux Klan rally, they were comfortable ideologically, but not in terms of corporate culture.

...true freedom is having the right to be a slave.

Like the good Reverend King
I too 'have a dream'
but when I wake up
I forget it and
remember I'm running late for work.

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.

People eat the shit you shovel them.

The real question is not where do ideas come from but where do they go.

She was thinking about how her middle-school alma mater was now 75 percent Latino, when in her day it was 80 percent black. Thinking

Most couples have songs they call their own. We had books. Authors. Artists. Silent movies.

It's illegal to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, right?" "It is." "Well, I've whispered 'Racism' in a post-racial world.

...you have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself?

If he was indeed an "autodidact," there's no doubt he had the world's shittiest teacher.

One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function.

Weary and stuffed from being force-fed the falsehood that when one of your kind makes it, it means that you've all made it.

I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way.

I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

That's the problem with this generation; they don't know their history.

It was hard to say if the statement was some sort of suicidal ideation, but one could hope.

Sometimes just making yourself at home is revolutionary.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.