My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world.

It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it."

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

Art movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. I also think that it gives artists something, a way of kind of processing. My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world. Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn't there that can reach other folks and help them to process"?