I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

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

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?

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

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.