30 Quotes by Mat Johnson

Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know.

I’ve been writing forever, 20 years.

I have found that, in the African American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth.

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

It is a great moment in every freak’s life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

My strong suit is that I’ve been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

I’m really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything’s going to be great.

People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn’t matter what form they take.