When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing with genre and genre expectations. So even if I say I'm doing straight memoir, you'll see that I'm… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories and not the stuff of literature. Or they're first-generation college student, first-generation American, and their family just doesn't understand the art world. They have a lot of guilt. "We came all the way from [wherever] so you could… — Faith Adiele Copy Share
I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible amount of… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
“I think that the individual cannot exist in a vacuum. Cannot exist in isolation. He is the member of a tribe, a church, a… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly, I think,… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing with genre… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
“I am a new generation of Africans. We believe in the future role of that continent. We are convinced it has a destiny and… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
“Optimistic, because even though the year of Obama's birth Herbert Lee, a black farmer with nine children, was shot in the head for trying… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
