” My family called me the ‘why kid’ growing up. I always needed to know why something is happening, why I had to do something, why whatever. “
” I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died when my aunts were little, so we didn’t have those kinds of heads of household. But all the members of our household who were female were sort of living as equal and as wise as the male figures in our family. “
” We didn’t really grow up in a gendered environment. We didn’t have a hierarchy. My family is fearless. They truly believe that they have something to contribute to society and that it is an obligation as humans. I try to embed in my children that they have something to contribute. And that you give because you have to, not to be appreciated. “
” I invited President Trump twice now to come meet my family and my community because he seems to have a lot of opinions about the kind of people we are. “
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