Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.