I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is the daughter of enslaved people and who has found a way to be hopeful and create love and value justice and seek peace is a remarkable person.

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.