I've never stopped being a refugee.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

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

Only your faith can make your fears go away.

A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.

And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.

We are disposable tonight. We are regrettable tonight. We can’t touch one another without the world imploding, tonight.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

Time control directly influences the quality of play.

Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the rally?

love is the only thing we have to save us

The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.