The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time to play, laugh, and, every once in awhile, sleep.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

To learn to read is to light a fire

Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

All you need is a double barrel

People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

If it is easy, something's wrong.

I love to say "please" and you have to accept me that way. If you don't, it's your problem.

We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us.

My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.