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As I watched, I was wondering how many of them were suffering from something, trying to recover from something. How many of them had lost a loved one or were suffering from a broken heart? How many of them were worried about a loved one? A child. A parent. A friend.

Nobody should have to hide who they are inside to please people on the outside.

That it is still important to keep improving our lives, even at our age, and we should treat ourselves better and stop acting like our best years are behind us.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can’t stand.

I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.

When I hear the doorbell, I push myself to a standing position and head upstairs. “Coming!” I yell while dancing to an unidentifiable beat that’s obviously not coming out of the speakers. This is just one more reason I like wine.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.

Over the years it became clear that sometimes you fall in love only to realize you don’t even like the person.

What it takes is real hard work. Ain’t nobody gon’ give you nothing in this world unless you work for it.

He encouraged me to take one more deep puff and hold it in, so I did, and the smoke traveled down on top of my esophagus and then did a U-turn up into where my brain was supposed to be. At first it felt like fireworks, and then I began to feel like I was floating down a stream. I liked it. And I took another puff and studied my ass off. The next morning, however, I would fail my very first Spanish exam, because I would not remember how to conjugate anything except Abraham.

I don’t let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people’s experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

Change is hard, and sometimes I think I should just turn to drugs and stay high and not worry about a damn thing.

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn’t treat me like one.

Sometimes you have to step outside of yourself in order to see inside.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

Most women are amazing. They just need to be with someone who makes it easy for them to express it. I think it’s called respect.

It now seems obvious that the way we’re raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love.

My stories are character driven.

I like gay men who don’t hate women, and I don’t mind being around rich white people, because there’s plenty of them in the Bay Area, and I know how to ignore Republicans.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it’s different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

I became a better person because of the time I spent with him, knowing him. I never got a chance to tell him that.

It’s sad to think that we’ve gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what’s even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

People need to be re – sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.

I’m more interested in interpersonal relationships – between lovers families, siblings. That’s why I write about how we treat each other.

Always listen to the parent who doesn’t like who you love. They can smell a mistake. Of course, you don’t find this out until you realize that the person you fell in love with is different from the person you married. Some men are good at fooling you.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don’t believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I’d crack up without my music. It’s the best company you can have, really. It don’t say ‘no’ or ‘maybe,’ or ask no questions.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

I’m not an angry woman. I’m not bitter.

Wherever there’s a prison, for the most part, especially where there’s Black people, it’s overcrowded. I don’t know who really gets out.

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don’t exist. I’m just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I’m not going to say.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it’s getting.

Writing is my shelter. I don’t hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

You promised me you would never cheat on me, that you’d love me forever and we would never get a divorce.” “I still love you, and I hate that I cheated on you, and I wish we’d never gotten divorced.

I can’t stand that – those women in ‘Waiting to Exhale’ now. I can’t stand them. But that’s because I’m 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

Can’t nothing make your life work if you ain’t the architect.

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that’s a learned behavior. Sometimes you can’t blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that’s what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don’t even know how to raise them.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody’s innocent.

People like to run their mouths.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

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