I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?

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

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

A tourist is an ugly human being.

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

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.