We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.

I am 100 percent on the side of insisting that white people step up to a different level of consciousness and commitment and the great gifts of the West and the great gifts of white culture and white community be used for a better purpose than this nonsense of supporting Trump. I insist on that. I refuse to accept that. I refuse to accept that we are going to give over 60 million people over to this guy.

I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.

Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

There are only two ways to have a middle class in your country: either you have highly skilled manufacturing jobs, or you have a highly skilled, well trained, knowledge-based workforce. In other words, college.

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.