If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American literature couldn't possibly be something they could be interested in or relate to. They have limited imaginations, which is sad.

Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.