“I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of...” — Junot Diaz Quote

“I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.”

“My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.”

“I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.”

“From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.”

“It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.”

“Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to the narrow teleology of winning matches... check the way that most of the endlessly replayed footage we see of Pele is not of him scoring goals, but audaciously missing chances contrived by force of wit.”