God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all.

You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.

You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.

You know it's not "you have to see it to believe it" - sometimes you have to believe it to see it. You have to know what you're looking for when you're seeing signs of an authoritarian takeover of your country.

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

Anybody who's mad should run for something.