I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

But I'm gon' get mine more than I get got.

I'm blessed. I'm blessed every day I wake up. So I just try to maximize every day to the fullest.

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.

I'm just 'bout that action boss.

I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

I'm just here so I won't get fined.

You find out what's in you when it comes out

When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you.

all about that action boss

Maybe love and pain are synonyms.

Be courageous. Always be a voice for those who are oppressed.

Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.

Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality.

I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.

On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree

I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.