I Sat Down Next To Her. Took

I Was Surrounded By A Lot Of Male Writers Of Color Who Have This Incredibly Bizarre Relationship To Masculinity. It's Like We Were All Mega-nerds But You Would Never Know That If You Listened To The Way They Talk About Themselves.

Nilda Is Watching The Ground As Though She's Afraid She Might Fall. My Heart Is Beating And I Think, We Could Do Anything. We Could Marry. We Could Drive Off To The West Coast. We Could Start Over. It's All Possible But Neither Of Us Speaks For A Long Time And The Moment Closes And We're Back In The World We've Always Known.

I Don't Think You Can Be From The Caribbean And Not Know A Certain Amount About The Apocalypse.

Literature Is Less Involved In Giving You Answers And More Dedicated To Giving You Insight.

You're The Only Person I've Ever Met Who Can Stand A Bookstore As Long As I Can.