There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

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?

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

Keep on doing what you're doing.