“In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.”
“I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.”