Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.

When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

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

It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.