At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

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'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting 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.