I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking..

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a p….

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself..

I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, ….

I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former sel….

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way..

People have a copyright on their own life..

I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!.

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work..

I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to wha….

I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom..

I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too..

I used to always love taking photos, but I would always give a camera away to someone else. Now I don't give the camera away anymore. It also takes a….

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget..

I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating,….

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure..

I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. I….

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself..

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control..

Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, so….

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but w….