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

You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.