I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.

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

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

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.