On a very practical level, I've learned the importance of circulation socks for planes. I had this awful experience of getting off a flight to go to an event and my feet had swelled. Try getting into heels then! So you put on the socks for the flight, then you can wear whatever heels you want.

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.