[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch Hashem Adonai. And I - I'm lost half of the time, but that was the world that I grew up in.

I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.

Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."