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

Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

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.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.