Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.

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

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies. Talk about this voluptuousness, this kind of stereotype of what a Caribbean person is. And I think these are stereotypes that even people inside the culture, we actually sometimes claim them and we're very proud.

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