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

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

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten and, although I didn't understand it, I loved the idea that this woman had written a book. I wanted to be her.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

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

I write out of defiance.