1. “Where there is a woman there is magic.”
2. “Novels allow me to create a whole world.”
3. “Creation is everything you do. Make something.”
4. “The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.”
5. “Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.”
6. “Lord help women who shake hands like a dead fish.”
7. “Some folks you tell some things, some folks you don’t.”
8. “Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or hope that we can find a way out of it without too much more injury to ourselves.”
9. “Multiculturalism is a white people joke.”
10. “I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.”
