I like what the internet offers: the ability to get people interested in your mind, and have a chance if you're not conventionally attractive.

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.

It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of making the unbelievable believable. That challenge is thrilling.

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.