“Human time is neither straight nor shapeless; it is instead like coral: whorled, fragile, and, in the end, ordered. And made out of skeletons.”
Novels, TinyLetters, poetry collections, and a funk-soul musical group.
“I talk to people, or rather, people talk to my dog.”
“It’s nothing to work that way, deep into the night, until the sky goes dark and then soft gray.”
“The conversation between the past and the present in New York is always kind of ambivalent.”
“I consider the letters to be exercises in flexing stolen-moment writing muscles.”
“I will always write about black womanhood and I will always be influenced by popular culture and our contemporary myth.”
“Her main interest when it comes to books is to chew on the corners of them (which she has only done twice, thankfully, to a memoir and a story collection), and to sit on them (which she does any time I have books spread out on the floor).”