I say, let's learn more and then speculate..

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger..

Blushes cannot be counterfeited..

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other..

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this..

I don't join or leave things lightly..

When you have to work, work with a smile..

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned..

I do what I do because I love it..

I could have coached better..

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

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

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other..

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..

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind..

I imitate everyone except myself..

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..