Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.

There's a lot of things that haven't been communicated to our communities. I didn't know these things myself. I didn't know that if you ate cheap food, it was like buying cheap gasoline, and there was a reason why after an hour you get headaches, or youhypoglycemic.

When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.