Sarah Jakes Roberts

I don't know if I thought that there was something bigger on the other side as much as I felt like I could be bigger than the moment I was standing in.

I am not one of those people who looked at their lives and like one day I'm going to speak to millions of people.

I'm going to write books.

I've always just kind of taken whatever the next available step was in front of me.

And I was walking out of the CPS office, which is Child Protective Services, which is a long story that I will save for another time.

But I just thought one thing to myself, and it was, I can do better than this.

I can do better than this.

And that has been my mentality that I'm always kind of chasing.

What does better look like from here?

No, girl.

I looked at that.

I was like, ooh.

We're going the opposite direction.

I think at one point I wanted to be a doctor.

After I had my son, I just wanted stability.

And by the time I dropped out of school, I thought at first I was going to go and be an accountant.

But then there was this one math class I couldn't pass.

And I was like, well, then I just need stability.

I have a child to take care of.

And I thought,