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" I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago. "

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" I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.' "

" I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears. "

" The thread that has always connected my family was the news. "

" My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family. "

" I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value. "

" My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters. "

" The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs. "

" I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too. "

" When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy. "

" I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online. "

" On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting. "

" I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work. "

" The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh. "

" If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue. "

" When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself. "

" When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time. "

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

Independent Woman

" It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can. "

" I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly. "

Black And White

" Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other. "

" I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to. "

" When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing. "

" I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa. "

" 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. "

" The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact. "

Black And White

" 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. "

" Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests. "

" I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago. "

" I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back. "

" I've been given an opportunity to make a difference. "

Make A Difference