“History was about to intervene: real adventure, real escape and adulthood were lurking, laughing, round the corner”

“These things were...well...they were dreams-made-real. And once dreams became real, they escaped the power of the dreamer and became their own deadly things, capable of independent action.”

“I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.”

“If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!”

“Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were “keeping it real” when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, though entertaining, had for the most part no transformative power, no ability to intervene on the politics of domination, and turn the real lives of black men around.”

“The real aim of romance is to provide escape and entertainment.”