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

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

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.

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.

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

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.

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