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.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.

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.

Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.