When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.

What is right can never be impossible.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.

A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

I have a lot of dreams, and most of them come true these days.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.