As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

I knew that there was an underlying thing there that I was never really able to come face to face with. There's a part of me that wants to always protect myself because of what I had gone through. But I learned that you have to let people in. Going to the therapist kind of helped me with that.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see and that you encounter and make the best of it.

That's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"

When I wake up, I always thank God. I'm grateful for another day, and he's allowed me this tiny thing that we should be appreciative of.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.