...having to experience so much so soon, and then to have to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, that's a lot. I can understand that. - Jennifer Hudson

When you pre­record you're married to that emotion, that delivery. I like the rawness, the honesty of being in the moment.

Stuff like this happens in your own home! I defy all the odds being African-American, living in a wealthy neighborhood and being a working mom. It’s too many foreign things in one person! It’s so ignorant. Race is just one of them. I face them all.

Chicago is home. Obviously, family, and it's all I know. I don't care where I go in the world, there is no place like home. Every time I come home, I get to come home to Chicago.