Tayshia Adams

I actually love to poke people's veins and draw their blood, so I'm probably looking at your veins when I first meet you.

I'm not practicing phlebotomy anymore.

I feel like I learned so much about myself in my own journey.

I feel like a lot of people make it very difficult for people to be their true, authentic self.

My faith is something I can always rely on through good and bad times.

My mom has always been very supportive of every decision I've made. She's always been very excited for me.

There were so many times she took us to sports or tried to be there for every event at school. How she had a job and took care of all four of us, I literally do not know, but my mom has always been there for us and a very present, hands-on mom. My mom did it all.

I don't think tearing somebody down is a good idea, but I think you can say 'Hey, what you're doing here is wrong.'

I think we need to continue to hold people accountable for their actions. I don't think there's anything wrong with doing that.

It's not normal to date 30 guys on camera and have the world share that experience with you. When the cameras go away, it's something you still have to deal with. It's difficult.

You need to know that the person who you're hoping to get engaged to, you can actually relate to.

Being in a relationship is difficult, in general, and there are ups and downs.

I will buy literally anything, even if I have 10 black turtlenecks - one more never hurts.

I have never fallen for one of those Instagram ads - ever!

Being the first biracial Bachelorette, it was big for me in order to represent people that look like me.

We have a little 'Bachelorette' group chat, which is quite nice.

I'm the last one to throw around engagement or marriage.

I'm a bold girl.

You can't make someone want to be married.

It was on the highway - I was completely stopped and the girl behind me was texting and not paying attention and ran into me going 60 miles an hour. From that point on, I had chronic back pain every single day for about five years. It was worse than I could have imagined.