"This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for. When I was growing up around here I was always fan…"

"I grew up in a world, [a] very New Jersey, American, Dominican, immigrant, African-American, Latino world. And, you k…"

"Our visions of an immigrant community and an immigrant experience are highly moralistic. I feel like our reality is W…"

"We live in a patriarchal imaginary where men cannot conceptualise women as fully human. What’s really important is ho…"

"Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] thin…"

"Writing fearlessly because, as my friend Junot Díaz has said, "a writer is a writer because even when there is no hop…"

"I teach his work in my creative writing classes now, to give students a sense of voice and language and just fierce h…"

"Junot Díaz, who is a big science fiction fan."

"When I first read Junot Díaz’s short story collection Drown I felt seen for the first time."

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."