Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.
I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.