“I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.”
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I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.
