My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning.

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

If you work hard, it will pay off.

My mom reminds me that all things are possible.

I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

The internet has allowed me to just be authentically myself, as opposed to having to perpetuate a certain image, and so I'm lucky that I don't have to fit into a certain box.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

Every flower displays its beautiful colours in autumn.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.