“You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the oppo...” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Quote

You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.

I have never used my family name to 'cash-in.' Unfortunately, such ridiculous charges come with the territory of coming from a famous and public family.

For eight years, President Obama represented us with class and with grace and with elegance and with decency. There were no scandals. There were no impeachments. There were no felony charges. There were no indictments. There were none of these things that were unbecoming of the office.

At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.

It's very difficult to have any feeling with Bartomeu. Because he is a person who, with his attitude, he has Barca kidnapped with intoxication, with lies... and on top of that he is a president who is facing charges, so in that respect he isn't very trustworthy.