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

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

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.

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

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

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.