For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

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

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

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

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.

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