To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you.

I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

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.