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?

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

I write because I love doing it.

Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

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 never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.