As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

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.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

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

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

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

You shouldn't spend all your time worrying about the love that leaves, because then you might overlook the love that was always there.

Self-identity is about content not the container that carry the identity, contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.