Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

I need, therefore I imagine.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

A dream is only impossible if you allow your thoughts and beliefs to convince you to believe so

Somehow they were entwining without touch, following a choreography laid down in time for lovers.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

My predictions are notably inaccurate

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled.