The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.