What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.

I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

I noticed that the work of my non - I noticed that the work of my friends who were white and male, specifically, existed in a type of freedom that was not bound by certain political questions and assumptions and locations.

I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued.

The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.