You can't be a human without seeing.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.