When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time to play, laugh, and, every once in awhile, sleep.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Victory begins when we are willing to run by faith, trusting that he will lead the way.

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

Whether or not I protect the weeds isn't a matter of just recognizing the weed for what it is, but possessing the conviction to grab hold of the roots and yank like my life depends on it.

Helping each other out, that's America.

If I do find myself walking up the aisle and dancing at my own wedding reception, I want the first dance to be both spontaneous and dramatic.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.