My Stories Are Character Driven.

I Would Like To Think That As A Result Of Not Just My Own Experiences, But At Least Being Empathetic And Compassionate About Other People's Experiences And Plights And Tragedies, That I Am Affected By It And Learn From It.

I Would Be Content Being A Housewife If I Could Find The Kind Of Man Who Wouldn't Treat Me Like One.

I Don't Trust White Critics' Judgment About Most Things That Deal With Black Life, Particularly When A Black Person Is The Creator.

Don't Worry About How Pretty (the Story) Sounds, How Lilting It Is, And The Imagery, And The Metaphor, All That. Most Readers Don't Care. It's The People In Your Book That Matter.

Too Many Of Us Are Hung Up On What We Don't Have, Can't Have, Or Won't Ever Have. We Spend Too Much Energy Being Down, When We Could Use That Same Energy – If Not Less Of It – Doing, Or At Least Trying To Do, Some Of The Things We Really Want To Do.