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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.