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.

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

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

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.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).