I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

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.

People like to run their mouths.

You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.