My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

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

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

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 like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

A valid answer comes when the question is lived.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

I live to harass white folks.

The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

Our life is woven wind.