Flying radio-controlled airplanes [is my guiltiest pleasure]. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

It's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.