"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

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

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

"The world is not a reader. It is a text."

"I am not interested in being a human being. I am interested in being a Black human being."