“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.”
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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.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.