I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.