“We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in...” — Maimouna Doucoure Quote

We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society.

My father is a street sweeper, my mother works in a shop.

We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was: Isn't the objectification of a woman's body that we often see in Western culture another kind of oppression?

Streamers are a great way to get my stories out and share my messages with more people.

I want to say to this guy and everyone who thinks that femininity means you don't have the power to think, to write, lead and create, women are capable of doing everything.

When I did finally get to the circus as an adult, I was very impressed by the trapeze artist. But, being 6 feet 3 inches and over 200 pounds, there was no way I could do a trapeze act. If I fell I'd take the catcher with me.

I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.

With continued prayer and an equally-determined commitment to action for needed anti-violence reforms, let us resolve to work toward a new era in which every American child and every adult are protected from the ravages of brutality, safe and secure in our homes and schools and communities.

I feel like with Tecia, I'm on the kimura and I'm doing it, I feel like 98 percent of the people would tap. You have to be a little bit mean like just rip it. Maybe they'll tear their shoulder and have to have surgery or something like that. Of course, that's not my goal but we're all adults here. They're going to try to hurt me.