In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?

What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly people who can make laws and have the power to enforce them. I'm often amazed at the conversations black people have about themselves. They ought to be having these conversations about white people. It's white people who are flawed and at fault.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.