It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

I call that god the Little G. Because the god that we've been worshipping is not to me the Supreme Creator. Anybody who needs to control and make people feel ashamed. . .It's like, 'I send my only begotten son. . .' Well you know, that concept of sending a son where we as women could, like, breastfeed him and give him milk, but he's not gonna soil his dinky with us? What's that all about?

Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.