[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

Privilege does not operate without silence.

When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism, you know - the thought was, it would be useful as a writer to try to create a template for all the male writers, especially Dominican male writers, especially males of color, of how a writer can use seeing to create more nuanced representations of women.