Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.