You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

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

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.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.

I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. 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.