There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.