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.

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

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.

Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we're training him to kill the living?

I'll take risk on what I do on my life . Just mind your own business .

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.