The importance of education plays a huge role.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.