I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
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.