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I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.
I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.
I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo.
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
