Adam Mansbach

Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat. ”

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane. ”

I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about. ”

Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged. ”

I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word. ”

If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about. ”

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti. ”

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones. ”

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard. ”

I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations. ”