I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.