"I have to be in a country where I can be a writer."

"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."

"Racism is a construct, a social construct, and it has a motive. It has a profit. It has an agenda."

"Sth, I know that feeling. Just when I think I'm in the clear, I find myself in the thick of it again. It's a never-ending battle."

"When you get to be my age, you realize that people are not all that different."