“In musical collaboration, you can kind of get outside of yourself. Being in a band, performing— in all those things you have to collaborate and work...
“After the poem has passed out of the hands of the one who’s written it down, and after that person may have departed from time and space and be...
“When people believe that more is possible, they are more likely to participate. And when they are aggrieved, when they know that someone is trying...
“So much of this is about representation. We have enough people in our communities who could be role models and international icons, but we don’t all...
“I stand on the shoulders of those people that came before me. There are people counting on me to step up and say what needs to be said, and do the...
“We can be resources for one another. We can share our value and show people how the publishing industry really works. Within the podcast I’m hoping...
“The privilege I’ve had in being an actor is having been able to enter lot of different psyches. Solidity is a dangerous place for the creative mind...
“I wanted to make Passing because of this idea of what gets to be canon. No one ever handed me Nella Larsen’s work. I didn’t know it existed, and...
“There’s a mismatch in the way American elections work, which ends up making it hard for people to think strategically and clearly. In particular...
“It makes me emotional—how rich my life is with such amazing people. I’m so grateful to have met Paul and Cooper. Like, look at this thing we made...
“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 asinine; it’s...
“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. But my...
Today marks the fifth annual Talk Easy holiday special, and we’re partnering with Covenant House to celebrate. Covenant...
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 survive...
“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 borrow the...
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...
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