...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

You deserve to take up space.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It affects them directly. But I'm really not interested in writing explicitly about that. I'm really interested in human beings, and in love, and in family. Somehow, politics comes in.