Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.