Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.

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

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

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

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 an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

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.