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

I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

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.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

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

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.