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" For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like. "

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" I am always attracted to people who are not myself but are. "

" I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world. "

" Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us. "

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

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

" There is not enough time for anything, ever. "

" Of course a magazine is shaped by its editor, and each editor is different. "

" If you have a word of encouragement, you can do anything. "

" I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old. "

" 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. "

" In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential. "

" I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting? "

" I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black. "

" Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white composers and lyricists often still rely on familiar tropes when it comes to representing black women in musicals. "

" I'm one of those crazy people who have to write every day. Otherwise, I feel really sort of despondent, and it's because I don't feel very happy about not learning. "

" I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false. "

" I don't think that there are many, many strong, black male role models who provide a certain kind of really American, Southern-based comfort that Madea grows out of. She's a signpost in our Obama world of traditional Christian values. "

" I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it. "

" I think that when I'm telling a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I can, and if there are various fractures that happen in the story, then that's just the very thing that the story is as opposed to my looking for avenues of difference in one story. They just really do exist. For me, anyway. "

" When you work at a magazine, you have to tell the truth. When you're not working in that format, it's fun to see where your mind takes you when the dictates have nothing to do with anyone but yourself. "

" I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long. "

" I'm not one of those people who's against all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays, but there are lot more complex and natural ways to bring people of color into the theater. "

" People have a copyright on their own life. "

" Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about. "

" If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. "

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" Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway. "

" I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure. "

" If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But 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, and that's crazy. "