Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

Art simply can’t be stopped.

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.