"The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time."

"The future is always here. It’s always now."

"I'm writing for black people, in the same way that Tolstoy was writing for Russians, but everybody was reading Tolstoy."

"Sth, I know that feeling. Just when I think I'm in the clear, I find myself in the thick of it again. It's a never-ending battle."

"Black people have always been there. We're just not being seen. And when we are seen, we're seen as a problem."