Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.