Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.

I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

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