“My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care o...” — Derrick Rose Quote

“My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.”

“Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.”

“The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.”

“As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.”

“On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.”

“McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.”

“There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.”

“I had a drag mom but she didn't really teach me about makeup. She just basically stuck me into gigs. And then I borrowed clothes from her and her drag to play the gigs.”

“My mom was on 'The Gong Show' twice.”

“Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.”

“He knows my limitations and where I'm a good wife and a good mom.”

“I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.”