My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.