Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.