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

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

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

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!