“How do we labor to bring ourselves into the present?”

“I like a kind of writing that’s irreducible—just itself and nothing else.”

“There is this moment when you have to reject everything in order to push yourself forward.”

“I have always wanted to fight cultural amnesia, and I don’t know how we do that without museums.”

“I’m writing to anyone with a political imagination.”

“I had the most boring job of all of my friends who were working in the early days of Hip-hop.”

“My body, your body, was already implicated in the zero degree of painting from day one.”