“This remaking of border management into a zone that aims to be both open and closed – that aims to facilitate trade, but control or contain so-called ‘undersirable flows’ (usually migrants) – is one piece of the rise of a whole new paradigm of security – supply chain security.”
People always forget about numbers, names, all kind of information, but they never forget a strong feeling. Maybe to turn on a mute alarm is the most effective way inform, that would be in any case my politics.
The last person I was in love with was an Episcopalian who taught me about Joy Williams, and who is maybe the only person I have ever written a decent poem directly about, to, and for.
“Short stories as a literary form with popular and commercial appeal are always either dying or making a comeback, it seems.”
“I think anyone working on or in the archives of slavery is dealing with the supernatural.”
“I wanted to write a book that, as Anne Boyer says, ‘isn’t against us.'”
“William Wells Brown is one of the great American patron saints of dodginess.”
“I just want to help people get closer to the feelings they want to feel.”
It was important to understand Toussaint Louverture’s importance as an icon in people’s hearts today, and for that I had to be in Haiti.
For me if desire were not so impossibly complicated I would not be interested in writing about it. Perhaps pushing desire toward death is a way to banalize, to some extent, what is so incredibly complicated.