That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [. . . ]
It would be cool for someone to ask me about some of the structural choices I make with my albums.
Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.
I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?
People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic. " You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.
Just give us 50 years where we're the only ones who are allowed to profit from art, and then you can do whoever you want. In fact, I'll buy you the paint. Whatever you want. Just give us 50 years. 50 years. That's it.
I don't tie my shoes right. I tie them the way you would tie a gift, like a bow.
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.
Have fun. Keep your integrity. Do what you want to do and stay true to that.
You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.
the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.