Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.