I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.

Privilege does not operate without silence.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."