It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.
The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.