Friendship Is A Wildly Underrated

Do You Want To Be An Artist So That The Whole World Will Look At You, Or Do You Want To Be An Artist Because You Would Like To Use Your Ability To Attract Attention, To Have The World See Itself Through You Differently?

We Who Are In The Arts Are At The Risk Of Being In A Popularity Contest Rather Than A Profession. If That Fact Causes You Despair . . . Pick Another Profession. Your Desire To Communicate Must Be Bigger Than Your Relationship With The Chaotic And Unfair Realities . . . We Have To Create Our Own Standards Of Discipline.

Learning Is A Tunnel Experience That Makes Us Think More Broadly.

Somehow We Can't Live Outside The Politics Of Race. There's Something Very Deep In All Of Us, That Is Taught To Us When We Are Very, Very Little. Which Is The Disrespect And Fear Of The Other.

I Think It's Really Important To Give Yourself A Very Big Question That You're Working On That You Can Come Home To.