So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of what's out; sometimes it's not as deep in terms of what's out. So it's definitely an evolution. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.

What's important is that my family and I are all good.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

You get educated by traveling.