I write because I love doing it.

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

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.

You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.

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

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.

Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?