I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

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.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

The infant is ten and he stays.