There Are As Many Kinds Of Love

I Never Really Thought I'd Be Successful. I Never Though I'd Get Books Published, But This Was Something Completely Beyond Me. The Fact That It Happened Is Wonderful, But It Is Not Something That I Was Aiming For.

My Father Always Taught By Telling Stories About His Experiences. His Lessons Were About Morality And Art And What Insects And Birds And Human Beings Had In Common. He Told Me What It Meant To Be A Man And To Be A Black Man. He Taught Me About Love And Responsibility, About Beauty, And How To Make Gumbo.

That's How Powerful You Are, Girl...you Pretty, But Pretty Alone Is Not What People See. You The Kinda Pretty, The Kinda Beauty, That's Like A Mirror. Men And Women See Themselves In You, Only Now They So Beautiful That They Can't Bear To See You Go.

Lawyer Even Sounds Like Liar.

The Love Of Writing Comes At A Very Early Age. For Me, For Instance, Comic Books So Affected Me. And A Lot Of People Who Come Up To Me And Start Talking About Writing, When I Start Talking To Them About The "fantastic Four," They Look At Me Aghast. They Say, "'the Fantastic Four?' That's Not Literature." I Say, "yeah, But It Was When I Was 11 Years Old." This Was Literature.