you know I think about my own mother and all five feet of her a beautiful brown woman with an accent Who convinced me and my sister Maya that there's nothing we couldn't do my mother who like all of our mothers understand the strength that we have and they don't accept anything less that's right than that we persevere that we have ambition that we have aspiration that we do it as an extension of our reason for being our mothers who are some of the toughest people we've ever known and the most loving and the most hopeful we all get that from our mothers