I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

At bottom, I'm a cheerful person.