Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

feminism is for everybody

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aesthetics more often than not informs her presentation of self and yet still acknowledge her beauty.