You Can Get A Thousand No's From

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.

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.

Everything That I Talk About, Pretty Much, Are Things That I Learned Or Understood Over The Years.

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.

If You're Black, You Can't Just Be Ordinary. All Successful Black People Are Extraordinary.