As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.

Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.