Sublime

Author Zadie Smith says, “Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.”

his casual stride the ultimate sign of belonging.

Neither blackness nor “people of color” stimulates in me notions of excessive, limitless love, anarchy, or routine dread.

and my feet, in sympathy with the music, tapped

These phenomena aren’t matters of indifference or bad taste. This is what arises from our increasingly unnatural experience of community, of culture, of public life, of identity, of bodies in space.

I don’t think Tracey had any special passion for standing up, it was a point of principle.

They are both in and of a society that is structurally racist, and so it isn’t surprising when these unconscious biases seep out into the work they do when they interact with the general public.

can remember feeling that this should be counted among the great examples of personal stoicism and moral endurance of our times.

The mind is in a dayless freak zone, surfing earth’s hurtling horizon.