I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.

[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.

I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.