I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.
The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.
When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true.
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.
We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.
Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.
I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety.
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.
I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
