When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)