"Racism is a distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you from thinking you’re not good enough or that you’re not worthy."

"The act of writing is an act of hope."

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."

"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet."

"I'm a storyteller."