There's a lot of things that need to change, a lot of different issues that need to be addressed.

If intimidation is your game plan, I hope you have a better one.

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it. This isn't for look. This isn't for publicity or anything like that. This is for people that don't have the voice.

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

We have to unite. We have to unify and make a change.

There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change.

I watch a lot of cartoons. I watch a lot of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Phineas and Ferb."

There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards.

Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.

Nothing makes us so beautiful as our smiles.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating

I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you. But there's still an anonymity in it.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.