My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.

I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.