In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'

I started my business with my best friend from high school.

The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.