There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.

We need to put pressure on Trump, to speak out very forcefully that he's the president of all Americans including Muslims, and that his administration, including his law enforcement, is going to take very, very seriously any crimes against any Americas based on their race or their faith, including Muslims. He needs to send that signal very, very soon and very, very clearly. Otherwise, he's going to be seen as culpable. And his silence may be interpreted as encouragement, rightly or wrongly.

Trust your intuition and be resilient. If you have real breakout ideas, even your friends will laugh at you secretly until you can prove their viability.

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

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

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.