Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

School should be eleven months of the year.

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.

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.