Abortion is an act of self-defense.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.