To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

I've done everything I've done in America with the limitations I have.

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.