This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

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.

Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.