I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.