“I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”
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The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this, ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.