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

"The best art is political and you ought to make it political."

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

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

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