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

"I'm not interested in being a black writer. I'm interested in being a writer who happens to be black."

"I'm not interested in writing about people who are just like me."

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."

"The future is always here. It’s always now."