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.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

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.

People like to run their mouths.

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.