I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.