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

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

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