You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing