"("what radicalized you?") When we lived in public housing my mom started a community garden to grow food to save mone…"

"The whole nature of how ppl respond to this coup would change if ppl, knew the full history of Reconstruction--and le…"

"The question of the silent majority, I think that the demographic that that phrase is invoking exists, but I don’t th…"

"I said, “The term white backlash frames those actions as inevitable and natural, as if order is being restored after …"

"We’re going on like year 250 of this argument that doesn’t seem to be true. A statistic that really struck me that I …"

"I love history, particularly the stories that get left out of overarching narratives because they are deemed too nich…"

"I’ve been blessed to know a lot of artists who are also mothers, who don’t necessarily go the cliché route of “mother…"

"I write for Black women. If others enjoy as well, I am really happy that they connect to the work. But if I were to w…"

"The contemporary fiction I read is mostly by Black, queer, and Black and queer writers. There are some extraordinary …"

"The work of a fiction writer is to take narrow experiences and explore the emotional vastness that’s within them."