I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.