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

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" 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. "

" One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party. "

" As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others. "

" 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. "

" I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day. "

" I am a gummy bear fanatic. "

" Al Roker is one of the most sensible people you'll ever meet. He's raised two daughters and a son. And I love him, in that as jovial as he is, he's a straight shooter. He's a New Yorker, as they say. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 date, don't get me wrong. I'm not up here filing my fingernails on a Friday night. I want to find someone to share my life with. "

" I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy. "

Asking Questions

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

" I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me. "

" 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. "

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

" I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out. "

" I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things. "

" I love Jidenna and Leon Bridges. "

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

" I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating. "

" I have an incredible phobia of divorce. "

" You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother. "

" It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago. "

" We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges. "

" I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason. "