A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Every background is worth gold, and it’s worth telling.
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.
Your background has a lot to do with how you view the world and your place in it.
Your background cannot be a limitation if it’s a foundation.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.