I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

Thank you for seeing me on the days when I couldn't see myself.

Without desire how is it possible to make a story?

I've always had good energy I've always had good health.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

As long as there is life there is hope.

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*