I am fine with my books being categorized as African-American literature but I hope they are also considered Haitian-American literature and American literature. All of these things are part of who I am and what I write.

I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.

Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.

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

Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.