Quotes from Tamron Hall

I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.

When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

I love Jidenna and Leon Bridges.

I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.

I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.

I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.

My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.

I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.

It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.

I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.

I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.

Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'

The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.

I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

I am a gummy bear fanatic.

I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.

I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.