As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.