I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

