Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

Creating life as I go and editing when needed in order to move forward. Always under construction to do and be better than yesterday.

When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" )

Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.

In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.

The majority of American voters have rejected both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.