(How do you tackle writer’s block?) I box, knit, write, and read. Physicality helps to jar me out of my mental state. It shakes things free. (2017) - Rita Williams-Garcia

writing is an art but it’s work. If you don’t value your work, who will? (2021)

One of the things I remember about the late 1960s was not only the emergence of the Black Panther Party, but the fact that there were kids who were involved. There were kids being served breakfasts, kids who were shown on the news holding signs, kids who attended rallies, and so on. This awareness of kids my age being a part of those things is what inspired my approach to One Crazy Summer.

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all. (p214)