Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and it's one that you can't see.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

Donald Trump is dangerous. The truth is that the bigotry and hatred that he speaks have real consequences in people's lives.

If you sing a song, any brokenness shall heal.

Time should be reproduced and multiplied

I will still be the girl with dreams, even the dreams come true

I don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

"It is my inmost conviction," Badshah Khan said, "that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat" - selfless service, faith, and love.

The intelligence of the universe is social.

I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.