In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.