Back Then I Confused Passions And Orgasms

I Used To Get A Lot Of Letters From Prisoners. It Used To Get On My Nerves. Especially Family Members. Everybody's Innocent.

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.

Too Many Of Us Are Hung Up On What We Don't Have, Can't Have, Or Won't Ever Have. We Spend Too Much Energy Being Down, When We Could Use That Same Energy – If Not Less Of It – Doing, Or At Least Trying To Do, Some Of The Things We Really Want To Do.

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.

We Never Thought Some Guy Would Deliberately Fill Our Hearts With Brown Sugar And Then Pour Hot Water All Over It.