I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

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.

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

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

Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.