I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the same shaming smirk can happen if you wear a big afro or any number of other hairstyles.

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he's got shelf life like I never would have guessed.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments.

Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.

I had a friend say to me the other day, I hate when I see Jonathan Metzl on your show because I know it's bad news. I know that there has been a shooting.

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

speaking out loud about anything which is in mind or brain is important !!Everyone can't.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side.

I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.