Everyday Life

"As an African-American woman, I'm used to the what the economy personally means, even when it's great for others, it's not necessarily great for me or my family or my friends. But we do the best that we can."

"Um, I noticed that, um, family members, friends and others in my community are attending to not shop as much. Um, they're shopping less, and they're tending to only shop for what's needed. Um, they're trying to save money because there's a lot of uncertainty. And I noticed that they're not spending, um, as much, they're not going out as much."

"You know, even with a partner, even with, um, family around you or friends, you know, um, as human beings, we still want that independence and we still want, um, to take care of ourselves."

"current economy. Um I grew up in a Chinese household. We're immigrants here in the United States. Um and you know, we didn't grow up with a lot of money, we didn't have much. So, we had a lot of like saving mentality, right? Save money, work hard. Um and definitely I feel like I'm sort of reverting to that or it always was my baseline."

"well, I think for me when the all-ha moments that I was aging is when you went from being called sir."