Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.

Like so many others my story begins with that same old line…. ‘So anyway, there was this guy….’ Until one day…. there wasn’t.And nothing was ever the same after that….

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?