To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected. What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.

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 for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

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

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.

My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders.