I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.

The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious.

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.