"I'm Raw. I'm Earth"

"I lay it on the slab. Ain't no shame in my game. I didn't have any trouble doing so because we all go through the feelings, but I got to come out on the top. And when you’re on top is when you can reach back. That's why I always say, 'Wherever you are is where the [heck] you are and you can't be in the moment where you are not. Honor this moment.' I've never had any trouble telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It worked for me and it worked against me, but as we can see, mostly for me.
"I've got about 30 more summers left. You don't [mess] around after 60, and there's 10,000 stories that didn't make the book, so the second is on the way."

Tre'vell Anderson in the Los Angeles Times interviews actress Jenifer Lewis about her new memoir.