"At times I felt like, God, if you're going to take me now, take me now. Somehow or another, I could practically hear, 'Don't you dare have such thoughts! Just take it as it comes.'"
"I don't see myself as a black writer. I don't know what that means. I am black and I am gay, but the minute that I only write work that is about being that—I don't think that's interesting."