She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's happened is that it has now reached a level of national discourse where it's on the table. But they've never minded that we were treated like this off-stage.

I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath you see that he's a monster.