If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

Like when you have the right title for something you're writing and you get lost - you can always go back to the title and go, "Yeah, that's what this is about."

There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to be indifferent to the simple mention of either group. We're two insightful people looking for reasons to love ourselves; and let's not forget we both love pork and wear sandals with socks.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

It's just never the same. At least for me.It's probably because it's just who I am, I never know what that [truth] is. It's so momentary to go, "Oh, yeah, that's true." That's a fundamental starting point for me - to figure out what's true from moment to moment to moment.