We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people’s minds ….

As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable..

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process..

I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what….

When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other pe….

Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift..

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic..

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story becaus….

I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life..

You can be the lead in your own life..

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students..

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people..

I have to do the work of self-love and affirmation, and say, "I am a woman, I am a person of color, I am the granddaughter of immigrants, I am also t….

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political..

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in t….

It is important to have friends and family around that I love and trust and who love and trust me..

I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the insi….

Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy to think about politics." B….

I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a 'gay wedding,' it's just a 'wedding'... It's not a ….

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help….

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism..