"I don't think there's any such thing as a female writer. I think there are writers."

"I'm writing for black people, in the same way that Tolstoy was writing for Russians, not for a little white island in the Caribbean."

"I have to be in a country where I can be a writer."

"The future is always here. It’s always now."

"The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time."