Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.