Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.

We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.

I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.