Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for in….

The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and mak….

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America ….

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….

Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha!.

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

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money..

People approach people of color with preconceived ideas. I don't think this is just restricted to white people, but I think that lots of black and wh….

Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men - friends - in the beginnin….

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?.

I don't know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There's nothing enriching, spiritually..

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