You can’t be a creative without that flash of desire to freeze the moment, everything from the sunlight to the croaking frogs (or the honking cars), and try in some way to bottle it. On paper, on canvas, or on a plate.

Christianity is supposed to be a balm for the Africans, the holy claim that all men are equal under God. But under man? Another story.

Dear White People is more nuanced and clever than many people–who’ve resisted it before seeing it–believe. It’s not a long rant about racism, it is a probing look into which issues are straw men, which are still relevant, and which ones we haven’t even addressed yet.