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.

I write because I love doing it.

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.

No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.