Because I want to be remembered.

I can't remember how to cry.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

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.