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.

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

Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

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 would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.