For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time to play, laugh, and, every once in awhile, sleep.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

When the mind is truly at peace, wherever you are is pleasant, Whether you live in a marketplace or in a mountain hermitage.

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

I like dramas and stuff. That's what I watch, but it seems weird that I'd be in it.

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.