If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.