When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

We don't collect the fee from students at the elementary, junior high or high school. We feel like it isn't their choice what they've been assigned in school. And if we don't have enough information to do a report, that is our responsibility and not theirs.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'