I Wanted Just For People To Know

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.

You Let Your Past Destroy You, Or You Use It To Create Something Better

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.

A Degree On The Wall, Without Labels On Your Back, Is Nothing.

My Mother Was Truly My Saving Grace, Because She Would Take Me To Church With Her. I Would See My Mother Smiling In The Choir, And I Wanted To Know This God That Made Her So Happy. If I Had Not Had That Faith In My Life, I Don't Know Where I Would Be Right Now.