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 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.

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.

Be the master of your life.

How Long We Should Wait?

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

I'm not a feminist at all.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride

I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved