I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

As much as I believe in the capacity for art to create change, and as much as being an artist is physically and emotionally challenging, there is ultimately something a bit comfortable about making art in the comfort of your own home.

I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then "accidentally" sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys.

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.