I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

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.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.