God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.

We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.

When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.

The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are.

There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside.

You will never know how it feels unless you were the one facing the situation.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.