Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see those separations too much, between what is artistic and what is political. Maybe in painting... no, I don't even believe that.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.