I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.