My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.
“I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.”
“In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.”