There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.

My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.

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