People like to run their mouths.

At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.

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

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

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.