It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns every….

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might ….

There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shado….

I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, bu….

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor diffe….

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrif….

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images ….

My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had….

Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through t….

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish..

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican,….

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing ….

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my li….

The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens….

You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper w….

The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with them all. He ….

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my nec….