I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.

I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.