I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.