I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active

I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.