There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world - and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

Everything matters. Time is precious.

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.