When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something I haven't practiced as diligently as my visual art. I've been doing visual art because I think it's easier for me to construct, whereas words are very difficult.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.