Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.

The idea that when one reacts, one is not reacting to any one of those moments. You're reacting to the accumulation of the moments. I wanted the book, as much as the book could do this, to communicate that feeling. The feeling of saturation. Of being full up. I wanted it to be simulacra.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.

I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.

I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present and a future - and what was in the past no longer exists.