If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.

I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.