I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

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

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

I write because I love doing it.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.