What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Why can't we all just get along?

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.

The whole duty of our existence is fear God.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

I don't like talking to celebrities.

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.

He never leaves, does he?