The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

You can`t use hair spray, because hair spray is going to affect the ozone. I`m trying to figure out - okay, I`m in my room in New York City and I want to put a little spray, so that I can - all right? Right?

You are five times more likely to be killed by your abuser if your abuser can get their hands on a gun. That`s not a small problem.

Think of how hard it would be to create a gender-based movement across racial lines as long as one group believes that it has to be strong while seeing the other group as passive and weak. We could also go into the stereotypes of the saucy, mercurial Latina and the docile, easily-dominated Asian woman.

We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.