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"Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves."
"People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights."
"You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you."
"I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people."
"I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a 'gay wedding,' it's just a 'wedding'... It's not a 'gay marriage,' it's just 'a marriage.' It's not a 'black man' or 'white woman,' it's just 'a man' and 'a woman,' or 'a human' and 'a human.' I'd just like to get to that."
"Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves."
"I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman."
"Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes."
"For me, 40 feels like a beginning. I'm in the middle of so much new - with this career, the kids, and I'm still sort of a newlywed. I'm excited to be at this stage in life."
"It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political."
"If I ever have a family one day, everything else will pale in importance to that."
"Study! Study ! Study! Get an education."
"I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist."
"Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little independent satellites. It's interesting."
"There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work."
"Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired."
"From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck."
"You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work."
"I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined."
"We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people’s minds from those evils."