Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

I know something better is on the road for me.

Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.