It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.

The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.