Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

Where you are is not who you are

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I'm a slave to her will.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.