I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.