We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

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.

Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.

Your plans and goals don’t scare the devil in anyway. Your courage to pursue your plans and goals always keeps him on the run. Be bold to make it happen!

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

GMO herbicide-tolerant crops have led to a 527 million pound increase in herbicide use in the U.S. between 1996 and 2011.