At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

One's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

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