When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.
Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.
I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.