“Black women under 35 get breast cancer at twice the rate, die at three times the rate of white women. Black women between the ages of 20 and 29 have a 58% higher chance of dying from breast cancer than white women. I can keep going. The stats are horrible. Black women are three times more likely to get triple negative breast cancer, so I put this all together in a PowerPoint presentation. I said, something is wrong and no one could explain the numbers to me. I went to the big breast cancer conference in San Antonio that happens every December and I started talking to the pharma companies that make breast cancer drugs. And when I painted this picture for black women and said, this is a devastating situation, this is basically a crisis, and what are you doing about it? No one had really thought about it that way. I said, well, something's wrong, so I'm going to call it Black breast cancer.”

 “A lot of these studies that are driving the standard of care did not include women of color. That's what we're dealing with in this world. You can just jump off this ledge because you saw one piece of information from this obscure thing or an article, so how do we make sure that people are doing this homework and have this space to do so much. Do they have wifi to do this homework?”

“I think it's just about being solution-oriented. Which can come from a lot of different emotions. It could be acceptance, it could be anger, it could be whatever, right? So whatever's driving you, continue to feel that and use it to be solution-oriented. I don't think it's a matter of, there's one way to feel. It's more like, what are you doing with it, with whatever feeling you're having to create change, to drive this mission, and keeping in the back of your mind that, cancer is our enemy, nothing else. Not that person that I met over there who was annoying. It's just keeping in the back of my mind that cancer is our enemy.”