Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.