Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see you every day. At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.

Privilege does not operate without silence.