I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.

I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.