"The purpose is to inspire or reactivate the collective political imagination about what we can do and how we can lead our lives."

"My friend, Art Spiegelman, who very graciously provided the cover for the book, initially wanted to put Trump on the cover and I said, no, no, you can’t do that."

"It's only a taste, a fragment of what Bowie must have experienced, but I really feel my head got in a strange space during that period of time."

"I was feeling something that I couldn't articulate."

"A language around livelihoods has the possibility of helping people to see their own lives differently and to appreciate who they already are in a different way."

"Those kinds of neat categories seem to be breaking down quite a bit. We see more and more industry reaching out to create transformative works."

"My decision to take on that labor had everything to do with the fact that I didn't have someone like me available. I didn't have anyone to help me demystify the process of the academy."

"This is one of the paradigmatic examples where the 'worlds' and 'words' come together and impact each other."

"As much as they want to add up to a grand unifying reading that says, "this, exactly, is America," I think that there's something that always goes astray."

"Many people are obviously aware that this nation was founded on a system of slavery, but what many people don't know is that the origins of policing in the United States can be traced to the institution of slavery."