The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.