However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.

I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

Singing in front of people. It's like having your heart beat outside of you.

The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.

Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions.