Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more committed in their resistance to authoritarian government, and also, not surprisingly, committed to safeguarding their culture and heritage as something distinct and worth preserving.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.