I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.