We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

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

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

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.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

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.