I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

The American woman is a monstrosity.

Lately I been drinking like there's a message in a bottle

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.