For me, Minneapolis will always have a special place in my heart.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

I wasn't a crazy kid. I never went out, never went to football games. I was a trained ballerina.

Like most women, I always dreamed of becoming a mother.

My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.

We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.