Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.
I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.
I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.
I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.
I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.
Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.
No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.
Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.
What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.
I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.
Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
