I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.