Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

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

I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.

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.

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.