I have my Lucky Charms in the morning, and I feel magical.

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

The “growing” we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as “shrinking, ” as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.

We are constantly reminded about how short life is. Please try to leave your best positive impression on everyone that you meet.

It’s what you do that counts, not what you consider doing.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

If you like soggy cereal, then we not friends.

There is no moment without some duty.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

There are plenty of Christian writers out there telling people what they should think. I'm happy to be one of the Christian writers simply telling people to think. For themselves.