“You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.”

“I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.”

“Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.”

“The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.”

“Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.”

“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”

“I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.”