“It's when you don't win that you learn things about yourself. Everything I have gone through has made me who I am today.”

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”

“If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say “But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.”

“I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.”

“Ugly live upon the inside. Ugly be a hurtful mean person...Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision...You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?...With Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”

“Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It's what made me who I am today.”