“White supremacy is not a mystery. To act like we don’t know what it looks like when it rams the door of a federal building is not only...
“The universe actually isn’t designed to protect you at all. It really isn’t. We’re getting an international reminder of that in spades...
Today marks the fifth annual Talk Easy holiday special, and we’re partnering with Covenant House to celebrate. ...
We need constant engagement. If you want to live in a civilized decent country, you’re going to have to work for it. In fact, if you want to...
“Sometimes showing emotion and being vulnerable isn’t a bad thing. It actually leads to more connections to the folks you’re trying to reach...
“Nothing is ours. Life is borrowed. We’re here for such a short time and we just pass through and borrow it all. We borrow the sky, we...
In my philosophy, everybody is ripening at our own pace. Just like any seed, or any flower or any tree or any animal—we’re all ripening, each one, at...
There’s a real hierarchy when you’re an actor. And if you’re working on a set with a lot of famous people, you can really be made...
That’s what’s crazy about movies. So many things that are pointed out in the film, or that may be the quest of the character, seemed to be happening...
Part of my job is to bring meaning back into words—coupled with a power analysis that goes deeper than instant coffee politics, which are a byproduct...
The greatest combination is confidence and humbleness. I’m confident that my skill level for comedian is at a high level—but I’m also...
We’re all part of the same bag of molecules. If you care about anything—like your family, your community, or your ecosystem—then we should try...
I think it would be hard to be nine years old and to know that by the time you were an adult, half the large animal species in the world would be...
I created an identity for myself to be a person that always gives one hundred percent. I just can’t do less and I’m very stubborn. In...
The composers that I know spend time alone and sing to themselves. It’s wonderful because they would never have heard those sounds if...
The people in the Hollywood system want people that comply. There’s nothing more dangerous than freedom. They don’t want free people because they...
Toyin Ojih Odutola is one of our finest visual artists working today. Her art has been featured in the Whitney, MOMA, and the Smithsonian. She joins...
Last fall, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we turned to the work of photographer Joel Meyerowitz. In the aftermath of that fateful day...
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