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?

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

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

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.