I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also….

I'm not reading any kind of fantasy [for young adults] or Hunger Games or anything like that. It's more just like geeks with crushes. It's very sweet….

I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write a novel and I'm teaching myself. For that ….

I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman t….

After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid o….

There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?" I've been think….

There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care..

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil..

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. Where I would usually backspace, I st….

Love makes you smart and strong. Smart enough to know there is nothing else that matters. Strong enough to know that nothing else can weaken you. Whe….

I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves..

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not. One type of black woman can exist, but also another kind can exist. I also ….

The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as one-sided or flat, and I kn….

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free..

And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out ….

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny..

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of ….

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it..

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves..

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art..

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not..