For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

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 have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.