I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.