Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.