I think it's important for people to just stay encouraged, and stay uplifted.

There is only one way to come out of that dark place, and that is through the power of prayer.

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

Sometimes you just have to be by yourself, you need a little space and time.

I hope to see a more diversified country, where people can view everyone as equal individuals, where people can start seeing our young black and brown boys and girls and valuing their lives as we would value other lives.

It is a right to have a firearm to protect yourself. But it is not your right to be irresponsible. At the end of the day, it is not the gun that kills you, it is the irresponsible person that does.

You can't just place your faith and your hope in one system, because when that system fails you, what do you do?