All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

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.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.