I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
Sometimes you need to be aware of the bigger picture you are missing.
To have a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds enables you to understand the market at large much more effectively.
My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.
