Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a smart nerdy kid my whole childhood, and I definitely wanted to be somehow involved with reading the rest of my life, and I came from a community, I lived in a community, I was part of a community where reading was considered completely alien.

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.