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

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

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.

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.

Sealing your lips makes your eyes talk Truth creeps beneath your lame feet’s walk Knees stiffen when blood vessels stalk A pounding heart’s lies hard as rock

When you try to cast doubt on the relationship of two true lovers.You'll find a bond that you'll never discover

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

Steve Sanders lives on in our hearts and in our minds.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'