Debi Thomas

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.