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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine pieces because you become a 'figure.' "

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

" Women have an ability to be still in a way men don't. "

" In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows. "

" My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Boredom means you develop your own interior life. "

" I love Andre Leon Talley as a person. "

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

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

" I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption. "

" People have a copyright on their own life. "

" I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia. "

" I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk, rock, some disco - was considered soulless, aberrant, just one more example of the Caucasian's desire to scream and yell and demand whatever their privilege and perpetual adolescence dictated they should demand. "

" My self encompasses a lot of different things. "

" What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's just for me, but if it's a piece for a particular publication, I know what they're going to ask for. "

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

" Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother. "

" I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself. "

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

" Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an 'appropriate' life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what's to keep it from happening to me or you? "

" I think that Tyler Perry's genius really has been to tap into the domestic market. He knows what his audience is based on, having toured America for so long, and then giving them the blueprint for his films prior to the films coming out, and then the films have the built-in audience because they've seen it in theaters already. "

" I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think. "

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

" Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art is a noble thing; suffering is such a small price to pay for the imagination. "