You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer..

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone..

There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences..

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong..

It's not personal, it's strictly business.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option..

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development..

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas..

I imitate everyone except myself..

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics..

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it..

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life..

I'd say I am partial to women..

I started to earn money because we didn't have money..

I never starved myself..

You cannot conceive the many without the one..

Funny how life messed with you..

Many things are possible. Few things are certain..