"I don't need a white person to tell me about my culture."

"The world is a very interesting place."

"When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you don't. And you can't fake it."

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

"I'm not interested in writing about happy people. I'm interested in writing about real people."