We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

Black love is black wealth

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.