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 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.

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

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

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

I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.