To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

I am the me I choose to be.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.