I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

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.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?

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

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.