You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I feel like it's our job to put that down on paper, and put it out into the world, so that it can be remembered.