“A negro in the White House? Oh no! Some people thought we'd never set foot in the White House again since we built it!!!!”

“Not all deviance is negative; without it, we'd never change the world.”

“She wasn't used to being the kind of woman whose house had a study. It sounded to her like she lived on the damned Clue board.”

“To anyone who thinks eating disorders are something rich, bored white girls do to get attention, I bid you bite me. I have frequent, intense, inappropriate outbursts of anger over the lies little girls are told about what is beautiful.”

“My friend died doing what he loved ... Heroin.”

“If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void”

“The desert doesn't care who you are, and neither does anyone or anything who lives in it.”