Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.