The job of a good ally is not to save anybody but rather to help create the conditions under which people can assert and grow their own power.

Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society.

Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.

Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action.

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

I prefer cash but so many places only take cards these days, it forces you down a line and I don't like that.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.