Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

I just really love people a lot. I really love them.