Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

Theres not a lot out there, and what is out there has to be really interesting to make me want to leave my life, which is really precious to me.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.