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

I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.

When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."

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.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

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

I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really fast so that makes a lot possible for me. I wish I had an explanation for it. I'm grateful for it.