Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...

I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our celebrated institutions are systemically racist. Many of our institutions that deal with law enforcement or controlling the bodies of Black people are systemically racist. Many of our educational institutions are systemically racist. Many of our corporate institutions are systemically racist. We don't have those conversations, so things don't change.