"I'm a storyteller."

"My work is to make sure that the people I'm writing about are human, and that they are complex, and that they are not stereotypes."

"Black people have always been there. We're just not being seen. And when we are seen, we're seen as a problem."

"I can't say 'I'm writing a book' unless I have a topic, a subject, a theme, and characters who are struggling with that theme."

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